KM421b (Early-Middle Roman Glass unguentarium) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Transparent, light greenish blue (PMS 317). Very few pinprick bubbles.
Technique
Free-blown.
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Glass Unguentarium
Comparanda
cf. Winter2006, pp. 81, no. 24, fig. 3 (‘Ein ez-Zeituna, Israel, late 1st-mid-3rd century)
Comparanda
sim. KM265
Description
Unguentarium or flask. Narrow, flaring rim folded in tightly and flattened to create small, rounded lip. Cylindrical neck.
Preservation description
One fragment preserves small part of rim and upper neck. Slight pitting.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 918-919, 961, 986, 988, no. 510, fig. 20.3
Maximum preserved dimension
0.026
Neck diameter
0.023
Preserved height
0.005
Rim diameter
0.036
Chronology comment
Mid-1st-3rd century
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph