KM251 (Early-Middle Roman Glass unguentarium) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Transparent, light blue to bluish colorless (PMS 2975). Sparse pinprick bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown.

Logical part of

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

Typological identification

Glass Unguentarium

Comparanda

sim. Antonaras2012, pp. 220, 341, no. 343 (Princeton; from eastern Mediterranean, 1st-2nd century)

Comparanda

sim. Barkoczi1988, pp. 116-117, no. 207, pl. XVII (piriform; Győr, Hungary, second half 1st century CE)

Comparanda

sim. Crowfoot1957c, pp. 411-412, fig. 95:5, 11 (piriform; Samaria-Sebaste, Early Roman)

Comparanda

sim. Lazar2003, pp. 178, 181-183, fig. 50 (form 8.6.5; Slovenia, second half 1st-2nd century)

Comparanda

sim. Oliver1983, pp. 251-252, 255-256, no. 58, fig. 4 (Episkopi, Cyprus, mid-late 1st century CE)

Description

Large unguentarium or flask. Flaring, straight rim turned in to create blunt lip with interior edge. Cylindrical neck.

Preservation description

One fragment preserves small part of rim and neck. Slight pitting and dulling.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 918, 986, 987, no. 505, fig. 20.3

Maximum preserved dimension

0.043

Estimated neck diameter

0.033

Preserved height

0.028

Estimated rim diameter

0.046

Chronology comment

Mid-1st-2nd century

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph