KM222a (Early-Middle Roman Glass unguentarium) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Transparent, yellowish greenish colorless (PMS 388/389). Very few small, spherical and medum, elongated bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown.

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Glass Unguentarium

Typological identification comment

Isings1957 Form 28

Comparanda

cf. AgoraXXXIV, pp. 61-62, 78, no. 127, fig. 7 (M. Stern; 1st century)

Comparanda

cf. Antonaras2009, pp. 300, 302, nos. 594, 613, pls. 35, 36 (types 129, 131; Thessaloniki)

Comparanda

cf. Price1992, pp. 437-438, 453, no. 299, pl. 348 (Knossos, 2nd century)

Comparanda

sim. Antonaras2012, pp. 218, 341, no. 337 (Princeton; probably Egyptian product, late 1st-2nd century)

Comparanda

sim. Lazar2003, pp. 178, 183-186, fig. 50 (Form 8.6.6; Slovenia, second half 1st–first half 3rd century)

Comparanda

sim. Nennaetal2003, pp. 515, 527, fig. 14 (Gabbari, Alexandria, 3rd century)

Comparanda

sim. VAML2, pp. 230, 556, nos. 674, 675, pl. 49 (Louvre; Syro-Palestinian product, end 1st-2nd century)

Comparanda

sim. Vessberg1952, p. 134, pl. VII:28 (Cyprus)

Description

Narrow rim folded out, down, up, and in to create sloping, concave exterior edge that is almost triangular. Tall, cylindrical neck.

Preservation description

Eleven joining fragments preserve entire rim and >50% of neck. Slight pitting and slight feather cracking; moderate silver iridescence and slight gray to black enamel flaking.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 918, 986-987, no. 503, fig. 20.3

Neck diameter

0.031

Preserved height

0.098

Rim diameter

0.043

Chronology comment

Dated mid-1st-2nd century

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph