KM345 (Middle-Late Roman Syro-Palestinian glass bowl) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Transparent, yellowish greenish colorless (PMS 380). Sparse small, spherical bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown. Ground lip.

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl

Comparanda

cf. Barag1978, pp. 15-16, no. 26 (wide, shallow bowl; Ḥanita, 3rd century?)

Comparanda

cf. GorinRosen2002a, p. 290, fig. 1:2, 3 (Khirbet el-Shubeika)

Comparanda

cf. Hayes1975, pp. 83, 103, 175, nos. 370, 371, fig. 10 (wide, shallow bowls; ROM; Syro-Palestinian, late 4th-early 5th century)

Comparanda

cf. Israeli2008, pp. 376, 401, nos. 70-72 (wide, shallow bowls; Caesarea Maritima, 4th-5th century)

Comparanda

cf. WeinbergGoldstein1988, pp. 45-47, nos. 49-70, esp. no. 51, fig. 4-6 (Jalame, late 4th-early 5th century)

Description

Bowl. Vertical rim with ground lip and horizontal rib just below. Globular(?) body.

Preservation description

One fragment preserves small part of rim and upper body. Extensive abrasion and moderate pitting; slight dulling and slight milky iridescence.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 945, 1014, 1015, no. 595, fig. 20.16

Maximum preserved dimension

0.027

Preserved height

0.02

Estimated rim diameter

0.108

Chronology comment

4th-5th century

Has geographic origin

Palestine

Has geographic origin

Syria

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph