KM270 (Early-Middle Roman Glass Unguentarium?) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Semitransparent, light blue (PMS 283). Sparse small bubbles.
Technique
Free-blown.
Logical part of
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Glass Unguentarium
Comparanda
cf. Oliver1983, pp. 251-252, 255–256, no. 61, fig. 4 (Episkopi, Cyprus, mid-late 1st century)
Comparanda
cf. Steskal2008, p. 190, no. G 4, pl. 344 (Vediusgymnasium, Ephesos, before mid-2nd century)
Comparanda
cf. Winter2006, p. 81, no. 26, fig. 3 (‘Ein ez-Zeituna, Israel, late 1st-mid-3rd century)
Comparanda
sim. Schatzschock2005, pp. 367, 378, no. G 36, pls. 230, 233:2, 235 (Hanghaus 2.4, Ephesos, 2nd-3rd century)
Description
Candlestick unguentarium? Narrow, horizontal rim folded up and in and flattened to create small, tubular lip. Cylindrical neck.
Preservation description
One fragment preserves roughly one-third of rim and upper neck. Extensive pitting, moderate silver iridescence, and moderate black enamel flaking; slight encrustation.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 918, 986, 987-988, no. 507, fig. 20.3
Maximum preserved dimension
0.029
Estimated neck diameter
0.019
Preserved height
0.009
Estimated rim diameter
0.037
Chronology comment
Mid-1st-2nd century
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph