KM161 (Early-Middle Roman Glass cup) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Transparent, light blue (PMS 277). Sparse small, spherical bubbles. Free-blown. Traces of coil around bottom in spiral. Hole from pointed tool that pushed up bottom.

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl

Description

Cup. Flaring lower body. Outsplayed, folded, tubular ring base. Low concave bottom.

Preservation description

One large fragment preserves small part of lower body and entire base. Slight pitting; slight milky to silver iridescence and slight crizzling.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, no. 564

Base Diameter

0.032

Preserved height

0.006

Chronology comment

Early to Middle Roman (1st–early 3rd century?).

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph