KM339 (Early-Middle Roman Syro-Palestinian glass unguentarium) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Semitransparent, bluish colorless (close to PMS 656). No impurities.
Technique
Free-blown. Annular pontil scar (Diam. 0.019).
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Glass Unguentarium
Typological identification comment
DeTommaso1990 tipo 49
Typological identification comment
Isings1957 Form 82a2
Typological identification comment
Vessberg1952, pp. 136–138, pl. VIII:20, XVIII:5=SwCyprusExIV.3, pp. 161, 163, 204, figs. 49:19, 60:5 (Unguentaria of Candlestick Type II)
Description
Candlestick unguentarium. Tall, cylindrical neck that tapers to constricted joint at body. Shallow, bell-shaped body that is more convex above shifting to more oblate below. Plain, rounded base and low, concave bottom.
Preservation comment
Eleven total fragments: four joining preserve most of neck, two nonjoining preserve small part of upper body, and five joining preserve more than one-half of base. Slight dulling; slight, sparse encrustation.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 917, 984, 985, no. 496, fig. 20.2
Base Diameter
0.084
Neck diameter
0.02
Preserved height
0.137
Chronology comment
Dated 2nd-3rd century
Has geographic origin
Palestine
Has geographic origin
Syria
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph