KM377 (Early-Middle Roman Imported glass small bottle) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Semitransparent, light blue with a tinge of green (PMS 318). Sparse pinprick and small, spherical bubbles and rare medium, elongated bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown.

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Glass Bottle

Description

Small bottle. Broad rim folded out, up, and in, pinched, and flattened to create tubular rim. Cylindrical neck. One thick strap handle folded up against neck and under rim. Probably northern Italian or central European product.

Preservation description

One fragment preserves small part of rim, neck, and upper handle. Slight abrasion and slight pitting; slight dulling.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 969, 1032, 1033, no. 654, fig. 20.27

Maximum preserved dimension

0.032

Preserved height

0.013

Estimated rim diameter

0.04

Chronology comment

Second half 1st-3rd century

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph