KM417a (Early Roman Northern Italian glass amphoriskos) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Transparent, bluish colorless with a tinge of green (PMS 630). Sparse small, spherical bubbles.
Technique
Free-blown. Coil handle.
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Glass Amphoriskos
Comparanda
sim. Amrein2001, pp. 65-67, 76, fig. 80:1 (Avenches)
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sim. Antonaras2009, pp. 274-275 (type 113; Thessaloniki)
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sim. Berger1960, pp. 41-42, pl. 20:79 (Vindonissa)
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sim. BiaggioSimona1991, vol. 1, pp. 209-213, figs. 28-30, 88, pls. 44, 45 (Locarno, Losone, Muralto, Ascona, and Minusio, Ticino, early 1st-early 2nd century)
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sim. Bonomi1996, pp. 22-24, nos. 3-7 (Museo di Adria; from Adria and Cavarzere, 1st century CE)
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sim. BrockMackworthYoung1949, p. 87, grave no. 6.5, pl. 29:3 (Siphnos)
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sim. Calvi1968, pp. 21-24, 110-111, no. 5, pls. A:1, 1:2=MandruzzatoMarcante2005, pp. 13, 58, 118, nos. 1, 2 (Museo di Aquileia; from Aquileia, 1st century CE)
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sim. Canav1985, p. 38, no. 20 (Türkiye Şişe Collection, Istanbul; from Kepsut, Balıkesir Province)
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sim. CaringtonSmith1982, pp. 271, 273-274, no. 21, fig. 4 and Price1992, pp. 434, 452, no. 269, pl. 347 (Knossos)
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sim. Corbo1955, pp. 35-36, fig. 25:2, photo 70, pl. 24 (Khirbet Siyar el-Ghanam near Bethlehem)
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sim. Cramer1908, p. 77, no. 967, pl. XIII:14 (Sammlung Vogell, Karlsruhe; from southern Russia)
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sim. DuraEuroposIV.5, pp. 8-9, 30, no. 123, pl. XX (C. W. Clairmont)
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sim. Facchini1999, pp. 11, 40, no. 2 (Museo di Verona; 1st-mid-2nd century)
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sim. Fadic2006, pp. 85-86, 116, no. 136 (Arheološki Muzej, Zadar; 1st century CE)
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sim. FoyNenna2001, pp. 187-188, 190, nos. 325-327 and FoyNenna2003, p. 241, fig. 51 (Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux and Saint-Romain-en-Gal)
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sim. IsraeliKatsnelson2012, p. 210, fig. 3 (Geva-Abu Shusha)
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sim. Israelietal2003, p. 260, no. 337 (Israel Museum; eastern Mediterranean)
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sim. LaBaume1974, p. 367, no. 4, pl. 92:5 (RGM; from Beth She’an)
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sim. Larese2004, pp. 31-32, nos. 2, 3, 30, pls. III, XIX, LIV, XCI (Venice, 1st-first half 2nd century)
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sim. Lazar2003, pp. 138-139, fig. 40 (Celje, Slovenia, second half 1st century CE)
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sim. Maccabruni1983, pp. 41-42, 46, 50, no. 18, pl. 9 (Musei Civici di Pavia; from Gropello Cairoli)
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sim. Mouterde1929, pp. 246-247, pl. XLVI:1 (Beirut)
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sim. Papageorgiou2014, pp. 268, 443, 446, no. 126 (Patras)
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sim. Petru1972, pp. 100, 165, pl. LXXXVII:16 (Emona, second half 1st century CE)
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sim. Price1987b, pp. 34, 36-37, fig. 5, map B (southern Spain)
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sim. Ravagnan1994, pp. 35-37, nos. 29-32 (Museo di Murano; from Zadar, first half 1st-mid-2nd century)
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sim. Rutti1991, vol. 1, p. 66, vol. 2, pp. 162-171, nos. 3726-4059, pls. 146-151 (Form AR 165; Augst-Kaiseraugst, Augustan/Tiberian–Flavian/Trajanic)
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sim. VAML2, pp. 30, 74, 522, no. 89, pl. 15 (Louvre; possibly Italian product, 1st–beginning 2nd century)
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sim. Vessberg1952, pp. 142-143, pl. VI:23, 24=SwCyprusExIV.3, pp. 151, 166, 206, fig. 47:22, 23 (Type B.1; Cyprus Museum)
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sim. Zampieri1998, pp. 20-21, nos. 1, 2 (Museo di Padova; from Este and Padua, first half 1st-first half 2nd century)
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sim. Zapheiropoulou1999, p. 231, pl. 87:ε (Naxos)
Description
Small handle of two conjoined strips forms delicate loop, thick at lower attachment but narrow in middle and at top.
Preservation description
One fragment preserves most of handle. Extensive pitting and slight chipping; slight gold iridescence.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 914, 919-920, 939, no. 512, fig. 20.4
Preserved height
0.029
Width
0.005
Width
0.009
Chronology comment
Mid-late 1st century CE
Has geographic origin
Italy
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph