- KM226+246 (Roman-Early Byzantine Marble Large Fluted Bowl) [permalink]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Material description
- Creamy white, fine to medium-grained marble with very pale gray veining and visible crystalline structure. Exotic source.
- Logical part of
- Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Stone Bowl or Platter
- Comparanda
- cf. CorinthXII, pp. 123–125, nos. 824, 825, fig. 20, pl. 60 (Early and Late Roman)
- Comparanda
- cf. Hiesel1967, pp. 98, 102, 152, no. 151, pl. 20 (Samian Heraion, Roman)
- Comparanda
- cf. Loverance2007, p. 330, no. d66, pl. 7:3 (baptistery, Kourion, 5th–7th century)
- Description
- Large, deep, fluted bowl. Thick-walled, curved body rises to slightly flaring but inwardly inclined rim with flat upper surface and slightly flattened outer edge. Exterior has wide, shallow flutes and arrises curving left, widening and rounded just below rim (W. 0.050; D. 0.005). Traces of vertical tooling with toothed chisel between top of flutes and rim. Large decorative bowl or font resembling a perirrhanterion, distinct from less finely worked marble vessels of more utilitarian character.
- Preservation description
- Two joining fragments (226+246) broken on all sides preserve small part of rim. Very slight, extensive abrasion and pitting; very slight, sparse encrustation.
- Published as
- GrahamReese2022, pp. 1238, 1243, no. 955, fig. 28.2
- Preserved length
- 0.217
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.48
- Rim Height
- 0.013
- Wall thickness
- 0.037
- Explanation of deposition
- Residual.
- Material
- Marble (Material)
- In Excavated Unit
- Locus G38-002
- Location in unit
- In lower fill in southeast corner of cist of Grave 38.
- Drawing
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