KM269 (Early-Middle Roman Imported Glass Large Bottle) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Semitransparent, blue with a tinge of green (PMS 7459). Sparse pinprick and medium, elongated bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown.

Logical part of

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

Typological identification

Glass Bottle

Description

Large bottle. Thick wall. Broad rim folded out, up, and in, pinched, and flattened to create large, tubular rim. Cylindrical neck. Probably northern Italian or central European product.

Preservation description

One fragment preserves small part of rim and neck. Slight abrasion and slight pitting; slight milky iridescence.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 969, 1032, 1033, no. 655, fig. 20.27

Maximum preserved dimension

0.028

Preserved height

0.014

Estimated rim diameter

0.064

Chronology comment

Second half 1st-3rd century

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph