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

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

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

Explanation of deposition

Represents Early-Middle Roman activity in area before Octagon.

Material

Glass (Material)

In Excavated Unit

Locus TRB0913-008

Location in unit

Fill below south ambulatory in Octagon.

Drawing

Photograph