KM447a (Early-Middle Roman Western Glass shallow bowl) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Transparent, greenish blue (PMS 5483). Very few pinprick bubbles.
Technique
Free-blown. Fire-polished lip and rim.
Logical part of
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Glass Free-Blown Shallow Bowl or Dish
Typological identification comment
Perhaps low dish with ring base cf. Isings1957 Form 97a
Comparanda
sim. Funfschilling1999, pp. 456, 459, no. 108, fig. 6 (late 1st-early 3rd century)
Description
Shallow bowl. Flaring, straight rim with thickened, flattened, rounded lip and horizontal rib just below that was pinched or kinked and glossed. Steep, conical upper body. Western product.
Preservation description
One fragment preserves small part of rim and upper body. Very slight pitting.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 951, 1017, 1018, no. 604, fig. 20.18
Preserved height
0.01
Estimated rim diameter
0.179
Chronology comment
Early-Middle Roman (1st-3rd century)
Has geographic origin
Western Mediterranean and Europe
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph