KM408 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Glass cup, bowl, dish, or lamp) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Translucent, light yellowish green (PMS 7745). Numerous large bubbles opening at surface
Technique
Free-blown. Solid pontil scar (Diam. 0.018).
Logical part of
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Glass Bowl Lamp
Typological identification
Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl
Typological identification
Glass Free-Blown Shallow Bowl or Dish
Description
Cup, bowl, dish, or lamp. Thick wall. Flaring to convex lower body: globular? Open, flat base that thickens toward center to create distinct bulb on floor.
Preservation description
One fragment preserves small part of lower body and ca. 50% of base. Slight abrasion and slight pitting; slight dulling, slight milky to silver iridescence, and very slight black enamel flaking.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 948-949, 973, 1014, 1016, no. 600, fig. 20.16
Estimated base diameter
0.047
Maximum preserved dimension
0.04
Preserved height
0.008
Chronology comment
5th-7th century
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph