KM410 (Early-Middle Roman Glass beaker or deep bowl) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Transparent, greenish colorless (PMS 372). Pinprick bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown. Fire-polished lip.

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Glass Free-Blown Beaker

Typological identification

Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl

Comparanda

cf. DuraEuroposIV.5, pp. 83, no. 330, pl. IX (C. W. Clairmont; “bowl”; 2nd–3rd century?)

Comparanda

cf. Grossmann2013, pp. 226-227, no. G23, fig. 22 (“cup or bowl”; Zeugma, late 2nd-mid-3rd century)

Comparanda

cf. Price1992, pp. 429, 448, nos. 179, 185-186, pl. 344 (“cup”; Knossos, mid-1st-late 2nd century)

Comparanda

cf. Steskal2008, p. 196, no. G 87, pl. 346 (“Becher”; Vediusgymnasium, Ephesos, 2nd quarter/mid-1st century–300 CE)

Comparanda

cf. Vessberg1952, p. 120, pl. III:1, 2=SwCyprusExIV.3, pp. 137, 140, fig. 44:1-2 (“beaker”; Cyprus)

Description

Beaker or deep bowl. Vertical rim with thickened, rounded lip. Cylindrical upper body.

Preservation description

Two nonjoining fragments (a/b) preserve small part of rim and upper body. Sparse patches of orangish to reddish staining.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 942, 955, 1020, no. 613, no. 20.20

Preserved height

0.026

Estimated rim diameter

0.084

Other Dimensions

m.p.d. 0.032 (b)

Other Dimensions

m.p.d. 0.033 (a)

Chronology comment

Early-Middle Roman (mid-1st-3rd century?)

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph