KM320 (Early-Middle Roman Glass Deep Bowl) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Semitransparent, bluish greenish colorless (PMS 621). Very few small, spherical bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown. Faint, oblique striations from tooling on exterior of base. Small, solid pontil scar (max. p.dim. 0.018).

Logical part of

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

Typological identification

Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl

Comparanda

cf. DelosXXXVII, pp. 117–118, no. D20, pl. 35 (P. Bruneau)

Comparanda

cf. EphesosVIII.7, pp. 124– 127, 300, nos. 479, 485, pl. 16 (B. Czurda-Ruth; Hanghaus 1, 3rd century?)

Comparanda

cf. Honroth1984, p. 159, no. G 77, pl. 42 (Pergamon)

Comparanda

cf. Price1992, pp. 430, 449, no. 194, pl. 345 (“hemipherical cup[?]”; Knossos, 3rd century)

Comparanda

cf. Schatzschock2005, pp. 366, 381, no. G 59, pl. 234 (“Becher/Schale”; Hanghaus 2.4, Ephesos, third quarter 3rd century)

Description

Deep bowl. Widely flaring lower body. Applied, solid, pointed to triangular ring base. Concave, conical bottom.

Preservation description

One fragment preserves small part of lower body and >75% of base. Moderate pitting; slight dulling and very slight silver iridescence.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 943, 1011, 1012, no. 587, fig. 20.14

Base Diameter

0.041

Preserved height

0.01

Chronology comment

Early-Middle Roman (1st-3rd century?)

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph