KM177 (Early-Middle Roman Glass unguentarium) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Semitransparent, bluish colorless (PMS 7457). No impurities.

Technique

Free-blown. Blowing spirals.

Logical part of

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

Typological identification

Glass Unguentarium

Typological identification comment

Isings1957 Form 28

Comparanda

cf. Antonaras2009, pp. 300, 525, 556, no. 593, pls. 35, XX (type 129; Thessaloniki)

Comparanda

cf. CorinthXII, pp. 105, no. 670, fig. 11 (G. D. Weinberg)

Description

Narrow rim folded out, up, and in to create thick, rounded lip. Tall, cylindrical neck.

Preservation description

Three joining fragments preserve entire rim and >50% of neck. Longitudinal fractures; slight to moderate silver iridescence; sparse encrustation.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 918, 986, no. 502, pl. 20.3

Estimated neck diameter

0.025

Preserved height

0.073

Estimated rim diameter

0.039

Associated with Burial Context

Koutsongila Grave 50

Chronology comment

Mid-1st-2nd century

Explanation of deposition

With a second globular(?) unguentarium and a cup or beaker (KM427) represents funerary offering.

Material

Glass (Material)

In Excavated Unit

Locus TRC0705-006

Location in unit

Lower fill inside cist of Grave 50.

Drawing

Photograph