KM264 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Eastern(?) Glass Cup, Small Bowl, or Goblet) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Transparent, greenish yellowish colorless (PMS 395). Numerous pinprick bubbles.
Technique
Free-blown. Applied blue blobs.
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl
Typological identification
Glass Free-Blown Goblet
Typological identification comment
The commonest types with this shape and decoration are hemispherical cups and small bowls, but they also occur in goblets and lamps: Isings1957 Forms 96b, 107b, 111.
Comparanda
sim. Antonaras2009, pp. 162-164, 495, 542, no. 145, pls. 5, VI (goblet; Thessaloniki)
Description
Cup, small bowl, or goblet. Ovoid or globular body. One horizontal row of small, circular to oval, opaque, dark blue blobs. Probably eastern Mediterranean product.
Preservation description
One fragment preserves small part of body. Slight abrasion and slight feather cracking; slight black enamel flaking.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 934, 947-948, 1014, 1015-1016, no. 599, fig. 20.16
Estimated body diameter
0.094
Maximum preserved dimension
0.04
Preserved height
0.023
Chronology comment
4th-6th century
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph