KM437 (Earlty Roman Imported glass deep ribbed bowl) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Transparent, bluish colorless with a tinge of green (PMS 628). Sparse small, elongated bubbles.

Technique

Rotary pressed.

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Glass Ribbed Bowl

Typological identification comment

Isings1957 Forms 3a, 3b

Comparanda

sim. KM406b, KM439

Comparanda

sim. AgoraXXXIV, pp. 33-36, 70, nos. 54, 55, fig. 4, pl. 5 (E. M. Stern; 1st century CE)

Comparanda

sim. Andreiomenou1979, p. 465, pl. 301:ζ (Eretria)

Comparanda

sim. BrockMackworthYoung1949, p. 88, grave no. 14.1, pl. 31:2 (Siphnos, Early Roman)

Comparanda

sim. Buechner1960, p. 110, nos. TG1, TG18, pl. 36 (Tarrha, Crete, 1st century CE)

Comparanda

sim. CaringtonSmith1982, pp. 270-271, no. 1, fig. 4, pl. 36a (Knossos, 1st century CE)

Comparanda

sim. CorinthXII, pp. 79-80, 94-95, nos. 595-598, fig. 6, pl. 54 (G. D. Weinberg)

Comparanda

sim. Gerousi2002, p. 134, no. 777, fig. 1 (Thera, mid-late Augustan)

Comparanda

sim. Haevernick1981, pp. 118-119, no. V 548, pl. 44:7 (Kabeiroi, Thebes)

Comparanda

sim. KenchreaiI, p. 136, pl. LVI:E (R. L. Scranton; from underwater near south mole)

Comparanda

sim. KoukouliChrysanthaki1983, p. 285, pl. 193:δ (Philippi)

Comparanda

sim. Mavromichali2001, p. 136, drawing 7, fig. 8 (Thessaloniki)

Comparanda

sim. Price1992, pp. 421-443, nos. 70, 71, pl. 340 (Knossos, contexts: Augustan-Claudian/Neronian)

Comparanda

sim. SamosXIV, pp. 163-164, fig. 276 (R. Tölle-Kastenbein; Kastro-Tigani)

Comparanda

sim. Schauer20012002, p. 36, fig. 6 (Olympia, 1st century CE)

Comparanda

sim. Slane1986, pp. 301, 314-315, no. 146, pl. 69 (Early Roman Cellar Building, second-third quarter 1st century CE)

Comparanda

sim. SlaneWright1980a, p. 163, no. 123 (southwest Forum, Corinth, Tiberian)

Comparanda

sim. WeinbergMcClellan1992, pp. 102-103, no. 57 (NAM; 1st century CE)

Description

Deep ribbed bowl. Hemispherical body. Narrow, evenly spaced, vertical ribs in high relief (18 total?) extending to lower body or base.

Preservation description

One large fragment preserves small part of middle to lower body with three ribs. Moderate abrasion, extensive pitting, and moderate chipping; slight silver iridescence; specks of encrustation.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 930-931, 993-994, no. 522, fig. 20.7

Estimated body diameter

0.115

Maximum preserved dimension

0.054

Chronology comment

Mid-late 1st century CE

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph