KM404a (Early-Middle Roman Glass unguentarium) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Transparent, light bluish green (PMS 624). Very few pinprick bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown.

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Glass unguentarium, bottle, or similar

Comparanda

cf. Barkoczi1988, p. 118, no. 211, pl. XVII (Szombathely, Hungary, beginning 2nd century)

Comparanda

cf. Honroth1984, p. 155, no. G 27, pl. 41 (Pergamon, mid-1st-mid-2nd century)

Comparanda

cf. Shepherd1999, p. 323, no. 86, fig. 11.5 (Nicopolis ad Istrum, 2nd-4th century)

Comparanda

cf. Winter2006, p. 81, no. 25, fig. 3 (‘Ein ez-Zeituna, Israel, late 1st-mid-3rd century)

Description

Unguentarium. Narrow, flaring rim folded out, up, and in to create rounded lip. Cylindrical neck.

Preservation description

One fragment preserves small part of rim and neck. Extensive pitting; slight dulling.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 918, 986, 987, no. 504, fig. 20.3

Maximum preserved dimension

0.027

Estimated neck diameter

0.023

Preserved height

0.013

Estimated rim diameter

0.035

Chronology comment

Mid-1st-2nd century

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph