Kenchreai Archaeological Archive: KM422 (Early Roman Imported glass large bottle)

: KM422 (Early Roman Imported glass large bottle) [permalink]
Type: Inventoried Object
Material description: Semitransparent, yellowish greenish colorless (PMS 379). Very few small, spherical bubbles.
Technique: Free-blown. Fire-polished lip.
Logical part of: Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification: Glass Bottle
Typological identification comment: Harden1936, pp. 234–236 (Class XI.B.a.I; Karanis)
Typological identification comment: Isings1957 Form 51a-b
Typological identification comment: MorinJean1923, p. 53, fig. 27 (forme 8)
Comparanda: cf. WeinbergMcClellan1992, pp. 119–120, no. 88 (NAM; from Sphakia, 1st/2nd century)
Comparanda: cf. vonSaldern1968, pp. 16–17, no. 53 (MFA; possibly from Crete, 2nd–early 3rd century)
Comparanda: sim. ApakidzeNikolaishvili1994, pp. 46-47, no. 48, fig. 30 (Mtshketa, Georgia, 2nd-3rd century)
Comparanda: sim. Astrom1965, pp. 137-138, no. 798, fig. 13 (Pierides Collection, Larnaca)
Comparanda: sim. Barag1985, p. 98, no. 137, fig. 10 (BM; from Mesopotamia, late 1st-mid-2nd century)
Comparanda: sim. Bucovala1968, pp. 29-30, 134-135, nos. 10, 11, fig. 1 (Tomis [Constanța], Romania, 1st-2nd century)
Comparanda: sim. Cadik1970, pp. 23, 31, pl. 15 (Západočesk. Muzeum, Plzeň; from southern Russia, 2nd century)
Comparanda: sim. Coscarella1994, pp. 91-94, 110, figs. 1, 2, pl. 3=Dussart1998, pp. 42, 158-159, pls. 47:2, 69 (Type BXI.12; Antiquarium, Bosra, 1st-early 3rd century?)
Comparanda: sim. Cramer1908, p. 68, no. 754, pl. XII:5 (Sammlung Vogell, Karlsruhe; from southern Russia)
Comparanda: sim. Edgar1905, p. 31, no. 32540, pl. V (Cairo Museum)
Comparanda: sim. Hayes1975, pp. 37-38, 59, 169, 197, no. 147, fig. 4, pl. 11 (ROM; from Cyprus, early-mid-2nd century)
Comparanda: sim. Honroth1984, p. 153, no. G 11, pl. 41 (Pergamon)
Comparanda: sim. Kunina1997, pp. 300-301, nos. 231-233, ill. 142 (Hermitage; from Panticapaeum, mid-1st-first half 2nd century)
Comparanda: sim. LightfootArslan1992, p. 51, no. 18 (Erimtan Collection, Ankara; possibly from area, 2nd century CE; citing examples from Balıkesir Province and Ephesos)
Comparanda: sim. Ozet2000, p. 110, no. 70 (Bodrum Müzesi; 2nd century)
Comparanda: sim. Roth1979, pp. 156-157, pl. 53:t=Meyer1992, p. 32, no. 248, pl. 11 (Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt)
Comparanda: sim. Skorpil1912, cols. 130, 132, no. 50, fig. 116 (Dionysopolis [Balčik], Bulgaria)
Comparanda: sim. Sorokina1967, pp. 68, 71, fig. 1:14, 15 (north Black Sea coast, 1st-2nd century)
Comparanda: sim. Stern1989, pp. 590-591 (Müzesi Bölge, Adana; from area, 2nd century)
Comparanda: sim. Vessberg1952, pp. 125, 128-129, pls. V:21, 22, XV:4=SwCyprusExIV.3, pp. 148, 150, 201, figs. 46:21, 22, 57:4 (Jug A.III.α; Cyprus Museum and Museum of Mediterranean Antiquities, Stockholm)
Comparanda: sim. Vessberg1953b, pp. 163-164, 166, no. A.17.25, fig. 1:c, pl. 56:b (Amathous, late Antonine-Severan)
Comparanda: sim. Yadin1963, pp. 102-103, no. 1, fig. 38, pl. 30 (Cave of Letters; citing examples from Museum of Jewish Antiquities, Hebrew University, and the Haaretz Museum, Tel Aviv)
Description: Large bottle. Flaring rim folded out, down, up, and out and extends in steep to horizontal ledge to thickened, rounded lip. Design creates collar with interior ledge. Cylindrical, bulging neck. It would have had a squat, cylindrical body, a wide, sharply angled, reeded handle, and a flat base.
Preservation description: One fragment preserves small part of rim and upper body. Slight pitting; slight milky to silver iridescence and silver enamel flaking.
Published as: Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 968-969, 1031-1032, no. 651, fig. 20.27
Maximum preserved dimension: 0.029
Preserved height: 0.014
Estimated rim diameter: 0.103
Chronology comment: Late 1st-mid-2nd century
Material: Glass (Material)
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