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- KM255 (Early-Middle Roman Glass unguentarium, small flask, or jar) [permalink]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Material description
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Semitransparent, light bluish green (PMS 563). Very few small, spherical bubbles.
- Technique
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Free-blown.
- Logical part of
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Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
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Glass Jar
- Typological identification
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Glass unguentarium, bottle, or similar
- Comparanda
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cf. AgoraXXXIV, p. 79, no. 131, fig. 7 (E. M. Stern; late 1st century CE)
- Comparanda
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cf. EphesosVIII.7, pp. 120-121, 300, nos. 443, 452, pl. 16 (Hanghaus 1, Early-Middle Roman)
- Comparanda
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cf. GurlerLafli2010, pp. 128-129, nos. 30, 31, fig. 6 (Smyrna, Early-Middle Roman)
- Comparanda
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cf. Price1992, pp. 430, 449, no. 193, pl. 345 (Knossos, Early Roman)
- Description
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Unguentarium, small flask, or jar. Globular or piriform body. Plain, rounded
base and concave bottom.
- Preservation description
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One fragment preserves small part of lower body and 33% of base. Slight gray iridescence; slight encrustation.
- Published as
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Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 917-918, 985, 986, no. 499, fig. 20.3
- Estimated base diameter
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0.03
- Body diameter preserved
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0.053
- Maximum preserved dimension
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0.045
- Preserved height
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0.012
- Chronology comment
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Late 1st-2nd century
- Explanation of deposition
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Residual in fill inside WWII foxhole.
- Material
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Glass (Material)
- In Excavated Unit
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Locus TRB0911-002
- Location in unit
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Upper fill in WWII foxhole in north trench.
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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