Kenchreai Archaeological Archive: KM157 (Early Roman Italian Glass Cup or Small Deep Bowl)

: KM157 (Early Roman Italian Glass Cup or Small Deep Bowl) [permalink]
Type: Inventoried Object
Material description: Transparent, light indigo blue (PMS 7445). No impurities in rim but very few large, rounded to elongated bubbles in bottom.
Technique: Free-blown. Blowing spirals. Large annular pontil scar (Diam. 0.019). Fire-polished lip.
Logical part of: Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification: Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl
Typological identification comment: Isings1957 Type 41b
Comparanda: cf. Antonaras2012, pp. 117, 319, no. 152 (Princeton; eastern Mediterranean)
Comparanda: cf. Barkoczi1988, pp. 19, 53, no. 7, pl. 1 (Type 4; Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum, Budapest; second half 1st century CE)
Comparanda: cf. BiaggioSimona1991, vol. 1, pp. 78–80, fig. 78, pl. 5, vol. 2, esp. no. 139.1.024 (Museo di Locarno; from Losone, Switzerland, second half 1st–beginning 2nd century)
Comparanda: cf. Buora2004, pp. 188, 277, 304, no. 444 (Museo di Udine; from Aquileia, mid-1st–mid-2nd century)
Comparanda: cf. Calvi1968, p. 74, no. 81=MandruzzatoMarcante2005, p. 95, no. 224, pl. 140 (Museo di Aquileia; from area, second half 1st century CE)
Comparanda: cf. CasagrandeCeselin2003, p. 199, nos. 315, 316, pls. XVIII, XXXV (Museo di Vicenza; 1st–2nd century)
Comparanda: cf. CzurdaRuth1979, p. 87, no. 653 (Magdalensberg, Austria, Augustan [too early?)
Comparanda: cf. Fadic1997, p. 176, no. 166 (Museo Archaeologico, Zadar; from area, 1st century CE)
Comparanda: cf. FollmannSchulz1988, pp. 96, no. 347, pl. 41 (Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn; from Bonn)
Comparanda: cf. GreglLazar2008, pp. 106-108, 159, nos. 1-4, pl. 4 (Bakar, Croatia, second half 1st–beginning 2nd century)
Comparanda: cf. LaBaume1973, no. L 2, pl. 49:2 (RGM; Italian product, second half 1st century)
Comparanda: cf. Lazar2003, pp. 69, 72-73, fig. 29 (Type 2.4.1; Slovenia)
Comparanda: cf. McFadden1946, pp. 485, no. 107, pl. XLV (Ayios Ermoyenis, Cyprus)
Comparanda: cf. Moriconi1973, p. 375 (Ostia)
Comparanda: cf. Notarianni1979, pp. 40-41, nos. 24, 25 (Museo di Bologna; 1st century CE)
Comparanda: cf. Ravagnan1994, pp. 188–189, nos. 371–374 (Museo di Murano; from Zadar, mid-1st–2nd century)
Comparanda: cf. ScatozzaHoricht1986, pp. 35-36, no. 44, pl. XXVI (Forma 10; Herculaneum)
Comparanda: cf. ScatozzaHoricht2012, pp. 106, 148-149, 197, 283, 308, 330, nos. 5716-5719, 9745, 11426, 11428, pls. IX, XXXIV, LVI (Pompeii)
Comparanda: cf. Shourkin1999, pp. 151, fig. 20:4 (Loḥamei HaGeta’ot, Israel)
Comparanda: cf. Whitehouse1997, pp. 101-103, nos. 150-152 (Corning; from Tyre and private collections, 1st-early 2nd century)
Comparanda: cf. Zampieri1998, p. 171, no. 282, pl. XV (Museo di Padova; from Padua, mid-1st-2nd century)
Comparanda: cf. Zissu2004, p. 30, fig. 4:5, pl. 5:1 (Ḥorbat Kishor in the Shephelah, 3rd-4th century)
Comparanda: sim. AgoraXXXIV, pp. 99, 118, no. 207, ill. 4, fig. 14, pl. 20 (E.M. Stern; fragmentary)
Comparanda: sim. CorinthXII, pp. 97, 99, no. 624, fig. 7 (G. Davidson Weinberg; fragmentary)
Conservation: 2007 (June): surface cleaning with acetone (Susan Wise).
Conservation: 2007 (early July): mended using nitrocellulose UHU Hart (Dimitra Miza).
Description: Cup or small deep bowl. Flaring, outwardly curving to horizontal rim with rounded lip. Conical body with straight wall curving in near base. Outsplayed, folded, tubular ring base and concave bottom with thickened, domed center.
Preservation description: Three total fragments: one (a) preserves small part of rim and two joining (b) preserve 75% of base. Slight pitting and slight chipping; very slight white iridescence and slight silver enamel flaking; small patches of encrustation.
Published as: Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 934, 939-940, 999-1000, 1002, no. 540, fig. 20.11
Estimated base diameter: 0.06
Estimated height: 0.048
Maximum preserved dimension: 0.027
Maximum preserved dimension: 0.048
Estimated rim diameter: 0.09
Chronology comment: Second half 1st century-early 2nd century
Has geographic origin: Italy
Material: Glass (Material)
In Excavated Unit: Locus TRB0704-001
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