KM433a (Early-Middle Roman Glass deep bowl) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Transparent, greenish colorless (PMS 381). No impurities.
Technique
Free-blown. Fire-polished lip.
Logical part of
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl
Description
Deep bowl. Vertical to slightly flaring, straight rim with outward-thickened, rounded lip. Conical to cylindrical(?) upper body.
Preservation description
One fragment preserves small part of rim and upper body. Extensive pitting; slight brown to gray iridescence and moderate silver to black enamel flaking.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 942, 1002, 1005, no. 561, fig. 20.12
Maximum preserved dimension
0.035
Preserved height
0.008
Estimated rim diameter
0.092
Chronology comment
Early-Middle Roman (1st-2nd century?)
Explanation of deposition
Residual in Early Byzantine colluvium.
Material
Glass (Material)
In Excavated Unit
Locus TRB0914-004
Location in unit
Middle level over Building B6, south of Octagon.
Drawing
Photograph