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- KM393 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Syro-Palestinian or Egyptian glass bowl lamp) [permalink]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Material description
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Translucent, greenish colorless (PMS 7485). Numerous small to large spherical bubbles.
- Technique
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Free-blown. Faint striations from grinding on exterior.
- Logical part of
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Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
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Glass Bowl Lamp
- Comparanda
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sim. Papageorgiou2014, pp. 200-201, 411, 413, no. 78 (“ουριαχός”; Patras, 5th-7th century)
- Description
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Bowl lamp. Thin wall. Hollow stem with wide, rounded, thickened bottom. Syro-Palestinian or Egyptian product.
- Preservation description
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One fragment preserves entire bottom. Slight chipping; slight dulling.
- Published as
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Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 974, 1036, no. 664, fig. 20.30
- Estimated base diameter
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0.03
- Preserved height
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0.012
- Chronology comment
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Context: late third quarter 5th-mid-6th century
- Chronology comment
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Type: 5th-7th century
- Explanation of deposition
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Represents Late Roman activity near graves and Octagon.
- Has geographic origin
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Egypt
- Has geographic origin
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Palestine
- Has geographic origin
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Syria
- Material
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Glass (Material)
- In Excavated Unit
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Locus TRB0911-005
- Location in unit
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On ground north of Octagon in central to south trench.
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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