KM380 (Early-Middle Roman Glass cup) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Translucent, light green (PMS 7730). Sparse pinprick bubbles. Free-blown.

Technique

Numerous small, oblique tool marks at exterior juncture of lower wall and base and down onto base from its shaping and attachment.

Logical part of

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

Typological identification

Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl

Comparanda

cf. EphesosVIII.7, pp. 124-126, 300, no. 480, pl. 16 (B. Czurda-Ruth; Hanghaus 1)

Description

Cup. Thin wall. Flaring lower body. Applied, solid, pointed ring base. Concave bottom.

Preservation description

One fragment preserves small part of lower body and base. Slight abrasion and slight to moderate pitting; slight silver iridescence.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 943, 1011-1012, no. 586, fig. 20.14

Estimated base diameter

0.03

Maximum preserved dimension

0.03

Preserved height

0.006

Chronology comment

Early-Middle Roman (2nd–3rd century?)

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph