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
Hayes1975, p. 38
Typological identification comment
Isings1957, pp. 67–69 (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)
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 to mid-2nd century
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph