KM412d (Middle-Late Roman Glass deep bowl) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Transparent, light greenish blue (close to PMS 5483). Very few small, spherical bubbles.
Technique
Free-blown. Striations on exterior from polishing. Fire-polished rim. Wheel incising.
Logical part of
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl
Typological identification comment
Possibly Middle-Late Roman version of Early Roman linear-cut, hemispherical bowl cf. Isings1957 Form 12
Comparanda
sim. AgoraXXXIV, pp. 135, 143, no. 305, ill. 9, fig. 18, pl. 27 (E. M. Stern; mid-4th century)
Comparanda
sim. GorinRosen2002b, pp. 153*-154*, no. 29, fig. 9 (Ḥurfeish, 3rd century)
Comparanda
sim. SternGetzov2006, pp. 97, 115-116, nos. 17, 92, figs. 6, 24 (El-Kabri, 3rd century?)
Comparanda
sim. WeinbergGoldstein1988, pp. 94-97, nos. 465-476, figs. 4-48, 4-49 (Jalame, late 4th-early 5th century)
Description
Deep bowl. Straight, vertical to slightly flaring rim with rounded, outwardly thickened lip. One horizontal, linear-cut groove just below lip. Hemispherical(?) body.
Preservation description
One fragment preserves small part of rim and upper to middle body. Slight chipping; very slight silver iridescence.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 945, 1013-1014, no. 593, fig. 20.16
Maximum preserved dimension
0.028
Estimated rim diameter
0.153
Chronology comment
3rd-5th century
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph
Photograph