KM157 (Early Roman Italian Glass Cup or Small Deep Bowl) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Transparent, light indigo blue (PMS 7445). No impurities in rim but very few large, rounded to elongated bubbles in bottom.
Technique
Free-blown. Blowing spirals. Large annular pontil scar (Diam. 0.019). Fire-polished lip.
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl
Typological identification comment
Isings1957 Type 41b
Description
Cup or small deep bowl. Flaring, outward-curving to horizontal rim with rounded lip. Conical body with straight wall curving in near base. Outsplayed, folded, tubular ring base and concave bottom with thickened, domed center.
Preservation description
Three total fragments: one (a) preserves small part of rim and two joining (b) preserve 75% of base. Slight pitting and slight chipping; very slight white iridescence and slight silver enamel flaking; small patches of encrustation.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 934, 939-940, 999-1000, 1002, no. 540, fig. 20.11
Estimated base diameter
0.06
Estimated height
0.048
Maximum preserved dimension
0.027
Maximum preserved dimension
0.048
Estimated rim diameter
0.09
Chronology comment
Dated second half 1st century-early 2nd century
Has geographic origin
Italy
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph
Photograph
Photograph