KM148 (Middle-Late Roman Eastern Glass Small Flask or Jug) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Semitransparent, light green (PMS 345). Sparse small, spherical bubbles.
Technique
Free-blown. Blowing spirals.
Logical part of
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Glass Free-Blown Flask or Jug
Conservation
2007 (June): surface cleaning with acetone (Susan Wise).
Description
Small flask or jug. Short funnel mouth with flaring, outwardly curving rim folded up to create vertical, sharp lip. Conical neck. Asymmetrical. Probably had a piriform or globular body. Pattern of fracturing around rim might point to detachment of handle after deposition.
Preservation description
One large fragment preserves >50% of rim, most of neck, and small part of upper body. Dense longitudinal fracturing; extensive dulling and slight milky to silver iridescence.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 908, 923, 961, 964, 1028, no. 640, fig. 20.24
Neck diameter
0.016
Neck diameter
0.025
Preserved height
0.06
Rim diameter
0.043
Chronology comment
Type: 3rd-5th century or later
Explanation of deposition
Funerary offering either outside or inside cist of Grave 36, 37, or 38, but graverobbers displaced it to ground level.
Has geographic origin
Eastern Mediterranean
Belongs to Historical Period
Late Roman (Historical Period)
Belongs to Historical Period
Middle Roman (Historical Period)
Material
Glass (Material)
In Excavated Unit
Locus TRC0702-002
Location in unit
In colluvium over bedrock near Graves 36, 37, 38.
Drawing
Photograph