KM397 (Middle Roman Syro-Palestinian glass flask) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Transparent, greenish yellow with a tinge of orange (PMS 619). Very few pinprick bubbles.
Technique
Free-blown. Blowing spirals. Fire-polished lip.
Logical part of
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Glass Free-Blown Flask or Jug
Comparanda
cf. Antonaras2009, pp. 213-214, 511, 548, esp. no. 348, pls. 21, XII (type 66; end 3rd–beginning 5th century)
Comparanda
cf. SardisM6, pp. 69–71, esp. no. 478, pls. 14, 26 (A. von Saldern; Bottles Type 1; Early Byzantine)
Description
Flask. Tall funnel to U-shaped mouth with inwardly thickened, rounded lip. Cylindrical neck. It would have had a spherical body.
Preservation description
One fragment preserves small part of rim and upper body. Slight abrasion and slight pitting; slight yellow and gold iridescence; scattered specks of brownish black staining.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 964-965, 1028-1029, no. 641, fig. 20.24
Maximum preserved dimension
0.04
Preserved height
0.019
Estimated rim diameter
0.06
Chronology comment
Type dated 4th-6th century; context dated late third quarter 5th-mid-6th century
Has geographic origin
Palestine
Has geographic origin
Syria
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph