Kenchreai Archaeological Archive: KM194 (Early Roman Eastern Glass Unguentarium)

: 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
Comparanda: cf. Antonaras2012, pp. 234-235, 344, no. 367 (Princeton; from Syria, 1st-2nd century)
Comparanda: cf. Calvi1968, pp. 135, 141-142, no. 273, pls. L:4, 21:1, 2, 4 (Type C.α.1.b; eastern import? Museo di Aquileia; from area)
Comparanda: cf. Kunina1997, pp. 324-326, nos. 361-363 (Hermitage; eastern import from Panticapaeum, mid-third quarter 1st century CE)
Comparanda: cf. LightfootArslan1992, pp. 81-82, nos. 37, 38 (Erimtan Collection, Ankara; possibly from area, 2nd century)
Comparanda: cf. Ozet2000, pp. 113-118, nos. 73a-75c (Bodrum Müzesi; from near Elmalı, Antalya Province, 2nd–3rd century)
Comparanda: cf. Simsek2011, vol. 1, pp. 154-155, vol. 2, 666, no. 648, pl. 122:498 (Laodicea ad Lycum, 1st century CE)
Comparanda: cf. Stern1989, pp. 589–590, fig. 9 (Bölge Müzesi, Adana; possibly from northeast Cilician plain, late 1st-2nd century)
Comparanda: sim. AkatFiratli1984, p. 57, no. 134, picture 58 (Hüseyin Kocabaş Collection, Istanbul; possibly from Asia Minor, 2nd-3rd century)
Comparanda: sim. Alexandri1963, p. 63, pl. 78:β (Argos)
Comparanda: sim. Canav1985, pp. 49–50, nos. 54–57 (Türkiye Şişe Collection, Istanbul; late 1st-early 2nd century)
Comparanda: sim. Hadjisavvas1987, pp. 255, 257, fig. 3:5-11, pl. LXIV:5-11 (Ayios Theodoros on the Troodos, 2nd century)
Comparanda: sim. McFadden1946, p. 475, no. 36, pl. XXXIX (Ayios Ermoyenis near Kourion)
Comparanda: sim. Mylonas1975, p. 92, no. Γ7-124α, pl. 195:α (Eleusis, second half 2nd century)
Comparanda: sim. SamothraceXI, pp. 1113–1114, 1117, nos. S219-15, S219-16, S232-2 (E. Dusinberre)
Comparanda: sim. SardisM6, pp. 25, 28, no. 159, pl. 8 (A. von Saldern; 2nd century)
Comparanda: sim. Schauer20012002, pp. 40, 46, fig. 10 (Olympia, late 1st-beginning 2nd century)
Comparanda: sim. Stroszeck2000, pp. 476–477, pl. 24 (Kerameikos, beginning 2nd century)
Comparanda: sim. TheraII, pp. 18, 286–287, figs. 16, 481:f (H. Dragendroff)
Comparanda: sim. Vessberg1952, pp. 136-139, pl. VIII:23 (Unguentaria of Candlestick Type IV: Bell-Shaped Body, though KM194 approaches Flask Type A.III.α, e.g., p. 134, pl. VII:24)=SwCyprusExIV.3, pp. 162, 164, 203–204, fig. 49:22 (Museum of Mediterranean Antiquities, Stockholm; from Cyprus)
Comparanda: sim. WiegandSchrader1904, pp. 278–279, fig. 286:b, c (Priene)
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 description: 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: Mid-1st-2nd century
Has geographic origin: Eastern Mediterranean
Material: Glass (Material)
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