KM256 (Early-Middle Roman Glass bowl) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Transparent, bluish colorless (PMS 2975). Sparse small, spherical bubbles.
Technique
Free-blown. Numerous small, oblique tool marks at exterior juncture of lower wall and base and down onto base from its shaping and attachment. Small, solid pontil scar (m.p.d. 0.013).
Logical part of
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl
Typological identification
Glass Free-Blown Shallow Bowl or Dish
Description
Bowl. Thick wall. Widely flaring lower body. Applied, solid, straight ring base. Flat to slightly concave bottom.
Preservation description
One fragment preserves small part of lower body and ca. 66% of base. Slight abrasion and slight pitting; very slight dulling; sparse specks of encrustation.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 943, 1011, no. 584, fig. 20.14
Estimated base diameter
0.041
Maximum preserved dimension
0.036
Preserved height
0.011
Chronology comment
Early-Middle Roman (1st-3rd century?)
Explanation of deposition
Displaced during WWII from underlying use deposit. Represents Early–Middle Roman activity in Building B3.
Material
Glass (Material)
In Excavated Unit
Locus TRB0911-002
Location in unit
Along walls of WWII foxhole in north trench.
Drawing
Photograph