KM390 (Early Roman Hofheim cup) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Semitransparent, indigo bluish colorless (PMS 650). Very few small, spherical bubbles

Technique

Free-blown. Wheel-incising.

Logical part of

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

Typological identification

Hofheim Cup

Description

Hofheim cup. Hemispherical body. Two horizontal, linear-cut grooves on exterior lower body. Western product.

Preservation description

Three joining fragments from lower body. Very slight milky iridescence.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 933, 935, 996, 997, no. 530, fig. 20.9

Estimated body diameter

0.1

Maximum preserved dimension

0.048

Preserved height

0.037

Chronology comment

1st century CE

Explanation of deposition

Represents Early Roman activity in Building B3?

Material

Glass (Material)

In Excavated Unit

Locus TRB0911-004

Location in unit

Amid structural collapse debris of Octagon in west trench.

Drawing

Photograph