KM393 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Syro-Palestinian or Egyptian glass bowl lamp) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Translucent, greenish colorless (PMS 7485). Numerous small to large spherical bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown. Faint striations from grinding on exterior.

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Glass Bowl Lamp

Comparanda

sim. Papageorgiou2014, pp. 200-201, 411, 413, no. 78 (“ουριαχός”; Patras, 5th-7th century)

Description

Bowl lamp. Thin wall. Hollow stem with wide, rounded, thickened bottom. Syro-Palestinian or Egyptian product.

Preservation description

One fragment preserves entire bottom. Slight chipping; slight dulling.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 974, 1036, no. 664, fig. 20.30

Estimated base diameter

0.03

Preserved height

0.012

Chronology comment

Type dated 5th-7th century; context dated late third quarter 5th-mid-6th century

Has geographic origin

Egypt

Has geographic origin

Palestine

Has geographic origin

Syria

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Drawing

Photograph