KM360 (Early-Middle Roman Imported glass shallow bowl) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Semitransparent, indigo blue (PMS 7667). Sparse small, spherical bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown. Applied crimped trail.

Logical part of

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

Typological identification

Glass Free-Blown Shallow Bowl or Dish

Typological identification comment

Shallow version of common deep bowl cf. Isings1957 Form 43 and Antonaras2009, pp. 102-103 (type 3Α.β)

Comparanda

sim. Antonaras2009, p. 103, no. 6 (Thessaloniki)

Comparanda

sim. AtallahGawlikowska2007, pp. 205, 247, 270, no. 95, fig. 12, pl. 15 (Beiteddine Palace Museum; from southern Lebanon?, 1st-2nd century)

Comparanda

sim. Barag1962, pp. 209–210, fig. 4 (Cave of Horror, Judaean Desert, early 2nd century)

Comparanda

sim. Calvi1968, p. 94, no. 239=MandruzzatoMarcante2005, pp. 33, 109, no. 309, pl. 147 (Museo di Aquileia; from Aquileia, western product, mid-1st-2nd century)

Comparanda

sim. Canivet1969, pp. 22-23, fig. 12 (Museo di Cagliari; from Cornus, western Sardinia, 2nd century?)

Comparanda

sim. Crowfoot1957c, pp. 414-415, fig. 96:5 (Samaria-Sebaste)

Comparanda

sim. Damevski1976, pp. 65, 69, 72, 83, pl. XI:7 (Bakar, Croatia, mid-2nd-early 3rd century)

Comparanda

sim. DeTommasoPoggesi1985, pp. 174-175 (tipo tav. 46.10-12; Settefinestre, Etruria)

Comparanda

sim. GenclerGuray2011, pp. 243-244, 262, fig. 4:11 (Elaiussa Sebaste, Early Roman)

Comparanda

sim. Hayes1975, pp. 41, 66, 171, no. 195, fig. 6 (ROM; 2nd/early 3rd century)

Comparanda

sim. Lapp1983, pp. 43, 54-55, fig. 23:1 (Araq el-Emir, Jordan)

Comparanda

sim. Loffreda1984, pp. 404, 474, fig. 6:10-12, 14 and Loffreda2000, pp. 37-45 (Capernaum, 1st-2nd century)

Comparanda

sim. Mavromichali2001, pp. 138-139, drawing 8 (Thessaloniki)

Comparanda

sim. Price1992, pp. 431, 450, no. 226, pl. 345 (Knossos, early 2nd century)

Comparanda

sim. Ravagnan1994, pp. 194, 230, nos. 389, 464-465 (Museo di Murano; from Zadar, second half 1st-beginning 3rd century)

Comparanda

sim. Toniolo2000, p. 148, no. 353, pl. IX (Museo di Este; from Este-Morlungo, mid-second half 1st century CE)

Comparanda

sim. VAML2, pp. 190-191, 543, nos. 523-525, pl. 36 (Louvre; from Syria[?] and Cyprus, end 1st-2nd century)

Comparanda

sim. Vessberg1952, p. 114, pl. I:16=SwCyprusExIV.3, pp. 130, 133, fig. 42:16 (Shallow Bowl II.a; from Avlona, Cyprus).

Comparanda

sim. WeinbergGoldstein1988, pp. 54-55, no. 18, fig. 4-16, pl. 4-7 (Jalame, 2nd century?)

Description

Shallow bowl. Horizontal rim folded out (down) into large, tubular lip. Irregular trail on rim forming pseudo-handle crimped into vertical ribs (one of two).

Preservation description

One fragment preserves small part of rim, appliqué, and upper body. Slight pitting; slight dulling, moderate gray to violet iridescence, and slight silver to black enamel flaking.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 949-950, 1016, 1017, no. 601, fig. 20.17

Maximum preserved dimension

0.018

Preserved height

0.013

Estimated rim diameter

0.265

Chronology comment

Mid-1st-early 3rd century

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph