KM310 (Early-Middle Roman Glass Cup) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Transparent, light blue with a tinge of green (PMS 318). Sparse pinprick bubbles.
Technique
Free-blown. Large annular pontil scar (Diam. 0.018).
Logical part of
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl
Description
Cup. Thin wall. Flaring lower body. Outsplayed, folded, tubular ring base. Low concave bottom.
Preservation description
One fragment preserves small part of lower body and entire base. Slight abrasion; slight silver iridescence and slight crizzling.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 942, 1006, 1007, no. 568, fig. 20.13
Base Diameter
0.04
Preserved height
0.008
Chronology comment
Early-Middle Roman (1st-early 3rd century?)
Explanation of deposition
Funerary offering that graverobbers probably displaced 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