KM058 (Early Roman Western Asia Minor(?) glass large flask) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Semitransparent, light bluish green (PMS 324). Very few small, spherical bubbles.
Technique
Free-blown. Blowing spirals. Faint striations on top from polishing.
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Description
Large flask. Thick wall. Vertical rim folded down, up, and out and flattened to create collar rim with sharp, horizontal lip and interior groove. Short cylindrical to conical neck widens in middle but constricts at shoulder. Widely spreading upper body: globular. No handle.
Preservation comment
One large fragment preserves entire rim and neck to shoulder. Slight chipping.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 961-962, 1026-1027, no. 638, fig. 20.23
Preserved height
0.064
Estimated rim diameter
0.071
Has geographic origin
Asia Minor
Belongs to Historical Period
Early Roman (Historical Period)
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph