KM266C (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Eastern glass bowl lamp or goblet lamp) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Semitransparent, greenish colorless (PMS 344). Sparse pinprick bubbles.

Technique

Drawn and indented trail.

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Glass Bowl Lamp

Comparanda

sim. Aupert1980, pp. 447-448, no. 408, fig. 50 (“skyphoi ou bols”; Argos, late 6th century)

Comparanda

sim. Pallas1972, pp. 247, nos. 6, 7, pl. 230:α (Kraneion basilica, Corinth, Late Roman-Early Byzantine)

Comparanda

sim. Papageorgiou2014, pp. 205-206, 411-412, 414, nos. 81, 82 (Patras, 5th-7th century)

Comparanda

sim. WilliamsZervos1982, pp. 124, 127, nos. 33-35, pl. 40 (from manhole east of Theater, Corinth, dated late 4th century)

Comparanda

sim. WilliamsZervos1983, pp. 23-24, no. 63, pl. 10 (east of Theater, Corinth, end 4th-mid-5th century)

Comparanda

sim. Wiseman1969, pp. 105-106, pl. 32:m (Gymnasium area, north of Corinth, late 5th-early 6th century)

Description

Bowl lamp or goblet lamp. Convex upper body: ovoid or globular. Delicate coil handle for suspension attached to upper body. Trail drawn down in triangular loop and indented at intervals to create very small secondary loop(s) below. Eastern Mediterranean product.

Preservation description

One almost intact handle preserves small part of upper body and main loop but broken at lower end. Slight pitting; very slight milky iridescence and very slight brown and black enamel flaking.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 975-976, 1037-1038, no. 667, fig. 20.31

Preserved height

0.024

Preserved width

0.009

Chronology comment

Context dated late third quarter 5th-mid-6th century

Has geographic origin

Eastern Mediterranean

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Drawing

Photograph