KM222b (Early-Middle Roman Glass beaker) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Semitransparent, greenish colorless (PMS 7485). Very few small, spherical bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown.

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Glass Free-Blown Beaker

Typological identification comment

Central Europe to Asia Minor product?

Comparanda

sim. AgoraXXXIV, pp. 94, 123, no. 194, fig. 12 (M. Stern; context dated mid-3rd century)

Comparanda

sim. Barkoczi1988, p. 88, no. 119, pl. XII (Szőny, Hungary, last third 3rd century)

Comparanda

sim. GenclerGuray2011, pp. 250–251, 266, fig. 8:19 (Elaiussa Sebaste, 2nd–3rd century)

Comparanda

sim. Rutti1991, vol. 2, pp. 194-195, 389-390, nos. 4775-4795, pls. 177, 178 (Augst-Kaiseraugst)

Description

Beaker. Convex lower body with constriction above base: ovoid. Outsplayed, plain, rounded base and concave bottom with domed center.

Preservation description

Twenty-four fragments, four joining, preserve small part of lower body and base. Slight pitting; slight dulling, slight milky iridescence, and slight gray enamel flaking.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 956, 1021, 1023, no. 619, fig. 20.21

Estimated base diameter

0.066

Preserved height

0.012

Chronology comment

2nd–3rd century?

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph