KM232 (Early-Middle Roman Imported glass large bottle) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Semitransparent, light bluish green (PMS 5493). No impurities.
Technique
Free-blown upper part.
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Glass Bottle
Comparanda
cf. CorinthXII, pp. 81-82, 104, no. 660, pl. 55 (G. D. Weinberg; late 1st-early 2nd century)
Comparanda
sim. Papageorgiou2014, pp. 239, 426, 430, no. 101 (Patras, mid-1st-2nd century)
Description
Large bottle. Thick wall. Broad rim folded out, up and in, pinched, and flattened to create large, tubular rim. Short cylindrical neck. Conical shoulder down to body. One thick strap handle with wide ribs folded down and up against neck and under rim. Probably northern Italian or central European product.
Preservation description
Two joining fragments preserve entire rim, neck, and parts of shoulder and upper handle. Moderate pitting and moderate chipping; slight white to silver iridescence, slight crizzling, and very slight black enamel flaking
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 969-970, 1032-1033, no. 652, fig. 20.27
Maximum preserved dimension
0.025
Preserved height
0.027
Rim diameter
0.049
Chronology comment
Second half 1st-3rd century
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph