KM447b (Early Roman Italian glass small cup) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Transparent, bluish green (PMS 7475). Sparse pinprick bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown.

Logical part of

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

Typological identification

Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl

Typological identification comment

Cf. Isings1957 Forms 36/37/38?

Comparanda

sim. Charlesworth1984, pp. 284-285, pl. 100:5 (“deep chalice”; Xanten, early-mid-1st century)

Comparanda

sim. Rutti1991, vol. 1, p. 47, vol. 2, p. 89, nos. 1688, 1689, pl. 76:211 (Form AR 92; Augst-Kaiseraugst, Claudian/Neronian-Flavian)

Comparanda

sim. vanLith1991 and vanLith1994, pp. 268-269, no. 426, fig. 8 (Novaesium [Neuss])

Description

Small cup: modiolus, kantharos, or carchesium? Flaring, straight rim pulled out, down, and up into hanging flange below tapering, sharp lip. Design creates collar with interior ledge. Conical(?) upper body. Italian product.

Preservation description

One fragment preserves small part of rim and upper body. Slight abrasion; slight encrustration.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 998, 999, no. 535, fig. 20.10

Preserved height

0.008

Estimated rim diameter

0.06

Chronology comment

1st century CE

Explanation of deposition

Represents Early Roman activity in building.

Has geographic origin

Italy

Material

Glass (Material)

In Excavated Unit

Locus TRB0704-001

Location in unit

On south central floor in Room B2-I.

Drawing

Photograph