KM439 (Early Roman Imported glass deep ribbed bowl) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Transparent. Bluish colorless (PMS 635). Sparse small, elongated bubbles.

Technique

Rotary pressed.

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Glass Ribbed Bowl

Comparanda

sim. KM406b, KM437

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 (15–16 total?) extending to lower body or base. Italian or eastern Mediterranean product.

Preservation description

One small fragment preserves small part of lower body with two ribs. Moderate abrasion, moderate pitting, and slight chipping; slight orange, gray to silver iridescence.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 930-931, 993, 994, no. 523, fig. 20.7

Maximum preserved dimension

0.026

Other Dimensions

Estimated diameter lower body 0.094

Chronology comment

Mid-late 1st century CE

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph