- KM469 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Window Pane) [permalink]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Material description
- Transparent to semitransparent, yellowish green to light yellowish green (PMS 7491-7746–7748). Numerous pinprick to medium, spherical and elongated bubbles, some aligned and opening at surface.
- Technique
- Blown-cylinder or “muff” process.
- Logical part of
- Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Window Pane
- Description
- Broad glass windowpane(s). Glossy on one side and matte to semiglossy on other (b, c), or both sides glossy (a). Even thickness narrowing to sharp, rounded edge (c).
- Preservation description
- Three nonjoining fragments. Slight pitting and slight feather cracking; slight yellow iridescence and slight gray enamel flaking.
- Published as
- Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 977-979, 1039, 1040, no. 670, fig. 20.33
- Other Dimensions
- Th. 0.002 (a, b, c)
- Other Dimensions
- max.pres.dim. 0.044 (a), 0.033 (b), 0.014 (c)
- Associated with Building
- Koutsongila Building B4 (The Octagon)
- Chronology comment
- Middle Roman-Early Byzantine
- Explanation of deposition
- Represents design of Octagon up to its destruction.
- Material
- Glass (Material)
- In Excavated Unit
- Locus TRB0911-003
- Location in unit
- At bottom of structural collapse debris over east central trench.
- Photograph
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