Kenchreai Archaeological Archive: KM173 (Early Roman Glass Stepped Conical Bead)

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Type: Inventoried Object
Material description: Opaque, medium blue (PMS 5473/5483) and white. No impurities.
Technique: Rod-formed by winding threads.
Logical part of: Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification: Glass Bead
Comparanda: cf. BrockMackworthYoung1949, pp. 87, 90, 92, grave nos. 6.16, 7.2a, 7.2b, 20.9a, 20.9b, 22.15a, 22.15b, pls. 29:3, 34:3–4, 35:1–2 (“buttons”; graves on Siphnos, Early Roman)
Comparanda: cf. Canav1985, pp. 35, 143, nos. 12–14 (Türkiye Şişe Collection, Istanbul; from İznik, 1st century CE)
Comparanda: cf. CorinthXII, pp. 297, 304, nos. 2629, 2630, pl. 125 (“buttons”; “Late Roman”)
Comparanda: cf. Crowfoot1957, pp. 399, 401–402, nos. 16, 17, fig. 92a (“spindle whorls”; Samaria-Sebaste)
Comparanda: cf. DelosXVIII, p. 270, no. B 4929, pl. 708:3 and DelosXXXVII, p. 136, no. E121, pl. 53 (Late Hellenistic–Early Roman?)
Comparanda: cf. Dusenbery1967, pp. 48–49, fig. 51=SamothraceXI, pp. 1133–1135, nos. S205-16 to S205-20, S219-22, S220-8, S242-3 (graves on Samothrace, 1st century CE)
Comparanda: cf. Foy2010, pp. 467, 484–485, no. 1007 (“perle annulaire”; Musée d’Arles; from Arles, 1st century CE)
Comparanda: cf. NecropoleAmathonteIV, pp. 85–86, nos. 695–699, pl. XIX
Comparanda: cf. VAML3, p. 333, no. 543 (Louvre; from Egypt, 2nd century BCE–2nd century CE)
Comparanda: cf. Vessberg1952, pp. 152–153, pl. X:17=SwCyprusExIV.3, pp. 171, 174, 212, fig. 51:17 (Cyprus, 1st century CE?)
Comparanda: cf. duPlatTaylor19401948, p. 43, pl. 3:7:5, 7, 8 (“whorls”; tombs, Vasa, Cyprus)
Conservation: 2008 (June): mended with nitrocellulose UHU Hart (Susan Wise).
Description: Conical stepped bead pierced through middle.
Preservation description: Almost intact. Extensive abrasion and extensive chipping; moderate dulling, moderate to extensive silver iridescence; extensive patches of encrustation.
Published as: Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 980, 1042, 1043, no. 676, fig.20.36
Base Diameter: 0.022
Height: 0.008
Other Dimensions: Diam. hole 0.004
Explanation of deposition: Funerary offering, but graverobbers later displaced it.
Material: Glass (Material)
In Excavated Unit: Locus T07-037
Location in unit: Disturbed fill on north floor inside cist of Loculus 7-IV.
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