KTH0211 (Roman Glass Beaker or Large Cup) [permalink] [next] [show fewer links]

Type

Inventoried Object

Logical part of

Threpsiades Inventoried Objects

Description

Vertical, cylindrical upper body with slightly flaring neck. Slightly incurving, inwardly folded rim with rounded lip. Fire-polished.

Fabric, firing, and surface description

Light blue to bluish colorless (PMS 656C), translucent. Very rare pinprick bubbles, many arrayed in horizontal blowing striations up to lip.

Preservation comment

One fragment preserves ca. 10% of rim and small part of upper body and neck. Slight, extensive dulling; patches of milky flaking.

Preserved height

0.018

Estimated rim diameter

0.07

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph