KM163 (Early-Middle Roman Imported glass small cylindrical bottle) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Semitransparent, light blue (PMS 7459). Sparse medium, elongated bubbles.
Technique
Free-blown. Blowing spirals.
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Glass unguentarium, bottle, or similar
Conservation
2007 (June): surface cleaning with acetone (Susan Wise).
Description
Small cylindrical bottle. Plain, flat base with rounded edge and almost flat bottom.
Preservation description
One fragment preserves small part of lower body and roughly one-quarter of base. Slight pitting; slight to moderate milky iridescence; heavy patch of encrustation.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 970, 1032, 1034, no. 657, fig. 20.27
Estimated base diameter
0.057
Maximum preserved dimension
0.038
Preserved height
0.012
Chronology comment
Second half 1st-3rd century
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph