- 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
- Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Glass Free-Blown Flask or Jug
- Typological identification comment
- Isings1957 Form 101
- Comparanda
- sim. Antonaras2009, pp. 192-196, 502-504, 545, nos. 254-273, pls. 12-14, IX (Type 51; Thessaloniki)
- Comparanda
- sim. Dekoulakou1984, p. 103, pl. 81:γ (Patras)
- Comparanda
- sim. Makropoulou2007, pp. 310, 342, pl. 24 (Thessaloniki)
- Comparanda
- sim. Soteriou19391940, pp. 64-65, nos. 1, 2, fig. 18 (Thessalian Thebes)
- 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 description
- 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. 639, fig. 20.24
- Base Diameter
- 0.043
- Body diameter
- 0.098
- Height
- 0.111
- Neck diameter
- 0.051
- Rim diameter
- 0.051
- Chronology comment
- Context: ca. 470/475 CE
- Chronology comment
- Type: late 3rd-early 5th century or later
- Explanation of deposition
- Represents ritual founding of Octagon.
- Material
- Glass (Material)
- In Excavated Unit
- Locus TRB0911-004
- In Excavated Unit
- Locus TRB0911-005
- In Excavated Unit
- Locus TRB0911-006
- Location in unit
- Found with mouth up in lower level of southeast fill inside pit in foundation of Octagon. Scattered fragments displaced by erosion and foot traffic to Late Roman colluvium and debris over ground north of Octagon, south trench.
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