KM279 (Early-Middle Roman glass flask) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Transparent, light blue (PMS 542). Numerous pinprick bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown.

Logical part of

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

Typological identification

Glass Free-Blown Flask or Jug

Typological identification comment

cf. Isings1957 Form 26a

Comparanda

cf. AsgariFiratli1978, p. 90, no. G1a, fig. 46, pl. XXIV (Chalcedon [mod. Kadıköy, Istanbul]), 2nd century)

Comparanda

cf. CorinthXXI, p. 22, no. 33-1, pl. 53 (K. Slane; sarcophagus north of Corinth; 1st-early 2nd century)

Comparanda

cf. WeinbergMcClellan1992, pp. 116–117, no. 81 (NAM; from Athens, 1st century CE)

Comparanda

cf. Zapheiropoulou1999, p. 230, pl. 84:α (Naxos, Early Roman)

Description

Flask. Tall, cylindrical neck. Globular to piriform body. Plain, flat base and slightly concave bottom.

Preservation description

Two nonjoining fragments preserve ca. 50% of neck and >50% of base. Moderate abrasion and extensive pitting; slight to moderate silver iridescence, slight crizzling, and slight black enamel flaking.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 934, 961, no. 637

Estimated base diameter

0.045

Maximum preserved dimension

0.066

Neck Height

0.034

Chronology comment

Late 1st-2nd century

Explanation of deposition

Funerary offering, but graverobbers probably displaced it here from adjacent loculus 2-II, 2-III, or 2-IV.

Material

Glass (Material)

In Excavated Unit

Locus T02-014

Location in unit

Lower level of Late Roman-Early Byzantine colluvium in west chamber of Tomb 2.

Drawing

Photograph