KM433b (Middle-Late Roman Syro-Palestinian glass jar or flask) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Transparent, greenish colorless (PMS 7485). Sparse small, spherical bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown. Pinching.

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Glass Free-Blown Flask or Jug

Typological identification

Glass Jar

Comparanda

sim. Antonaras2012, pp. 33, 207, no. 305, fig. 65 (Princeton; from Ashdod, Syro-Palestinian product, 4th-5th century)

Comparanda

sim. Bagatti1967, pp. 228-229, no. 78, fig. 3 (Museum Franciscanum, Nazareth; from Beth She’an, late 3rd-4th century)

Comparanda

sim. Barag1978, pp. 24-26, 28-29, nos. 50, 62, figs. 12, 14, pl. V (Ḥanita)

Comparanda

sim. Baur1938, p. 531, no. 51 (Jerash)

Comparanda

sim. Crowfoot1957c, pp. 408, 410, fig. 94:12 (Samaria-Sebaste, second half 3rd-first half 4th century)

Comparanda

sim. Israelietal2003, p. 188, no. 222 (Israel Museum; eastern Mediterranean, 4th century)

Comparanda

sim. WeinbergGoldstein1988, pp. 80-81, nos. 351-353, fig. 4-39 (Jalame)

Description

Jar or flask. Convex body and pinched decoration (“fins”). Syro-Palestinian product.

Preservation description

One fragment preserves small part of body. Moderate abrasion and extensive pitting; moderate dulling and slight silver iridescence.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 971-972, 1034, 1035, no. 661, fig. 20.28

Maximum preserved dimension

0.018

Chronology comment

4th-5th century or later

Has geographic origin

Palestine

Has geographic origin

Syria

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph