KM233 (Early Roman Italian(?) glass ribbed shallow bowl) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Translucent, light blue (PMS 7458). Sparse small, spherical bubbles.
Technique
Rotary pressed. Traces of fine rotary polishing above ribs and on interior.
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Glass Ribbed Bowl
Typological identification comment
Western imitation of Late Hellenistic-Early Roman Near Eastern model?
Comparanda
sim. vonSaldernetal1974, pp. 96, 97, no. 255 (Sammlung Oppenländer, Cologne; eastern Mediterranean or Italian product, 1st century CE)
Description
Shallow bowl. Vertical to slightly flaring rim with tapering, rounded lip. Convex body that curves in steeply toward base. Fine, vertical, solid ribs with rounded tops in low relief (92 total?) on middle body, fading toward base.
Preservation description
Seven fragments, five joining, preserve <25% of rim to lower body. Slight pitting; very slight silver iridescence and slight crizzling.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 929-930, 992-993, no. 521, fig. 20.7
Estimated body diameter
0.149
Maximum preserved dimension
0.08
Preserved height
0.039
Chronology comment
Early 1st century CE?
Has geographic origin
Italy
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph