KM374a (Early-Middle Roman Imported glass large bottle) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Semitransparent, light bluish green (PMS 319). Very few large elongated bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown.

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Glass Bottle

Comparanda

cf. AdamVelenietal2003, p. 211, no. 191 (Lete, Macedonia, 2nd-3rd century)

Comparanda

cf. Charlesworth1966, pp. 26–27, fig. 3 (rim: Type 1c)

Comparanda

cf. Rutti1991, vol. 2, pp. 132, 164, 325, 359, nos. 2627, 3813, pls. 113, 147 (Augst-Kaiseraugst).

Description

Large bottle. Thick wall. Broad rim folded out, up, and in, tightly flattened, and bent to create heavy, blocky lip that slopes out and down (mushroom-shaped). Cylindrical neck. Probably northern Italian or central European product.

Preservation description

One large fragment preserves roughly one-third of rim and small part of neck. Good condition

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 969-970, 1032, 1033-1034, no. 656, fig. 20.27

Maximum preserved dimension

0.044

Preserved height

0.012

Other Dimensions

Estimated rim diameter inside 0.039 outside 0.058

Chronology comment

Second half 1st-3rd century

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph