KM346 (Middle-Late Roman Syro-Palestinian glass deep bowl) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Transparent, light yellowish green (PMS 380/381). Sparse small, spherical bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown. Fire-polished lip.

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl

Comparanda

sim. Erdmann1977, pp. 106, 127, no. 415, pl. 4 (small cup; Mezad Tamar, Israel)

Comparanda

sim. Haevernick1981, pp. 125, 137, nos. V 829, V 1812, pl. 38:17 (Kabeiroi at Thebes)

Comparanda

sim. Harden1936, p. 126, no. 347 pl. XV (Karanis)

Comparanda

sim. Hayes1975, pp. 89, 120, 178, 216, no. 469, fig. 13, pl. 30 (wide, shallow bowl; ROM; from Syria, 4th century CE?)

Comparanda

sim. Jennings2006, pp. 106-107, fig. 5.20.6 (Beirut, “essentially a 5th-century form”)

Comparanda

sim. WeinbergGoldstein1988, pp. 50-51, nos. 83-87, fig. 4-10 (Jalame, late 4th-early 5th century)

Description

Deep bowl. Vertical rim with outwardly thickened to triangular, rounded lip. Hemispherical body

Preservation description

One fragment preserves small part of rim and upper to middle body. Extensive abrasion and slight pitting; slight silver iridescence.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 945, 1014, no. 594, fig. 20.16

Preserved height

0.017

Estimated rim diameter

0.11

Chronology comment

4th-5th century

Has geographic origin

Palestine

Has geographic origin

Syria

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph