KM267+388+395+398 (Late Roman Imported Dip-Mold-Blown Glass flask) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Semitransparent, light green with a tinge of yellow (PMS 366). Sparse large, elongated bubbles.
Technique
Dip-mold blown. Small, circular indentation in center of bottom from tool used to push up base.
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Description
Dip-mold blown. Small, circular indentation in center of bottom from tool used to push up base.
Description
Flask. Short funnel mouth, flaring rim folded down and up and pressed into a triangular lip to create collar rim with sharp lip and interior groove. Conical neck down to low, rounded ridge at shoulder. Globular body. Plain, flat base and concave bottom with thickened, conical center. Blunted, oblique ribs (28 total) spiraling up from bottom to shoulder.
Preservation comment
Forty-four fragments, 23 joining, preserve 33% of rim, 33% of neck, 50% of body, and 50% of base. Slight feather cracking; silver to black enamel flaking.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 962-964, 1027, 1028, no. 669, fig. 20.24
Base Diameter
0.043
Body diameter
0.098
Height
0.111
Neck diameter
0.051
Rim diameter
0.051
Chronology comment
Date by type: late 3rd-early 5th century or later. Date by context: ca. 470–475 CE
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph