KM318 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Eastern Glass Bowl(?) Lamp) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Semitranslucent, light green (PMS 367). Numerous small, medium, and large bubbles.
Technique
Drawn trail.
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Glass Bowl Lamp
Description
Probably bowl lamp. Conical upper body. Thick coil handle for suspension attached to upper body. Trail drawn down in oval loop, tightly folded up, in, and down against the wall, and pulled down in a thin, flat strip. Eastern Mediterranean product.
Preservation description
One almost intact handle broken at lower end. Slight abrasion and slight to moderate pitting; slight dulling, slight to moderate milky iridescence, and silver to black enamel flaking; medium patches of encrustation.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 975-976, 1038, no. 668, fig. 20.32
Maximum preserved dimension
0.023
Preserved height
0.021
Preserved width
0.013
Chronology comment
5th-7th century
Has geographic origin
Eastern Mediterranean
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Drawing
Drawing
Photograph