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
Description
Cup or small deep bowl. Flaring, outward-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 comment
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, no. 540
Has geographic origin
Italy
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph
Photograph
Photograph