KM394 (Middle-Late Roman Glass deep bowl) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Transparent, light greenish blue (close to PMS 5483). Very few pinprick bubbles.
Technique
Free-blown. Fire-polished lip.
Logical part of
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl
Description
Deep bowl. Flaring, straight rim with rounded lip folded out, down, and up to create an interior ridge just below lip.
Preservation description
One fragment preserves small part of rim and upper body. Slight feather cracking; slight silver enamel flaking.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 944, 1012, 1013, no. 590, fig. 20.15
Maximum preserved dimension
0.03
Preserved height
0.018
Estimated rim diameter
0.161
Chronology comment
Middle-Late Roman (3rd-4th century?)
Explanation of deposition
Represents Early-Middle Roman activity in Building B3 or period of disuse before erection of Octagon.
Material
Glass (Material)
In Excavated Unit
Locus TRB0911-005
Location in unit
Late Roman colluvium on ground north of Octagon in central to south trench.
Drawing
Photograph