KM194 (Early Roman Eastern Glass Unguentarium) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Translucent, light blue with a tinge of indigo (PMS 652). Sparse small, spherical bubbles.
Technique
Free-blown.
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Glass Unguentarium
Typological identification comment
Antonaras2009 type 131
Typological identification comment
DeTommaso1990 tipi 32/42
Typological identification comment
Isings1957 Form 28a
Description
Tall-necked unguentarium. Horizontal rim folded inward and flattened to create wide, drooping lip. Cylindrical neck with constricted joint at body. Conical body. Plain, round base and very slightly concave bottom.
Preservation comment
Intact. Slight gray to black enamel flaking; very slight encrustation.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 914-915, 983, 985, no. 492, fig. 20.2
Base Diameter
0.048
Height
0.109
Neck diameter
0.017
Rim diameter
0.028
Chronology comment
Dated mid-1st-2nd century
Has geographic origin
Eastern Mediterranean
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph