KM428 (Early-Middle Roman Glass bowl) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Semitransparent, light green (PMS 7494). Numerous small, spherical bubbles.
Technique
Free-blown. 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
Description
Bowl. Thick wall. Flaring lower body. Applied, solid, straight ring base. Flat to slightly concave bottom.
Preservation description
One fragment preserves small part of lower body and >50% of base. Extensive abrasion and extensive pitting; moderate dulling; moderate specks and patches of encrustation.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 942, 943, 1011, no. 585, fig. 20.14
Estimated base diameter
0.06
Maximum preserved dimension
0.043
Preserved height
0.011
Chronology comment
Early-Middle Roman (1st-3rd century?)
Explanation of deposition
Residual in topsoil.
Material
Glass (Material)
In Excavated Unit
Locus TRA07040506-001
Location in unit
Uppermost level over south slope of ridge.
Drawing
Photograph