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- KM434 (Middle-Late Roman Glass sprinkler(?)) [permalink]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Material description
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Semitransparent, yellowish colorless (close to PMS 7499). No impurities.
- Technique
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Free-blown. Blowing spirals. Applied warts.
- Logical part of
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Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
- Typological identification
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Glass Sprinkler
- Comparanda
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cf. DuraEuroposIV.5, pp. 51, 53, nos. 219-222, pls. VI, XXXIII (C. W. Clairmont; probably sprinklers; Middle Roman)
- Comparanda
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cf. SardisM6, p. 19, n. 57 (A. von Saldern; Archaeological Museum, Tehran; from Susa, Late Parthian-Early Sassanian)
- Comparanda
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cf. WeinbergMcClellan1992, pp. 75, 132, no. 107 (applied warts on flask; NAM; 3rd century?)
- Description
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Probably a sprinkler, possibly a globular flask or rounded cup or bowl. Convex wall with at least one row of applied warts, low and round.
- Preservation description
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One fragment preserves small part of body. Slight abrasion and very slight pitting; slight milky dulling and slight golden iridescence.
- Published as
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Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 914, 921-922, 990, no. 515, fig. 20.5
- Estimated body diameter
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0.067
- Maximum preserved dimension
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0.033
- Preserved height
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0.028
- Chronology comment
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3rd-6th century
- Material
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Glass (Material)
- Drawing
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- Photograph
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