KM451 (Early-Middle Roman Glass cup) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Transparent, greenish colorless with a tinge of blue (PMS 566). Numerous pinprick bubbles.

Technique

Free-blown. Fire-polished lip.

Logical part of

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

Typological identification

Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl

Description

Cup. Flaring, straight rim with inward-curving, rounded lip. Conical upper body.

Preservation description

One fragment preserves small part of rim and upper body. Slight pitting and slight gouging; slight milky iridescence and slight silver to black enamel flaking.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 942, 1002, no. 549, fig. 20.12

Maximum preserved dimension

0.04

Preserved height

0.01

Estimated rim diameter

0.07

Chronology comment

Early-Middle Roman (1st-2nd century?)

Explanation of deposition

Represents Roman activity in B2/B3 complex? Residual in Late Roman colluvium.

Material

Glass (Material)

In Excavated Unit

Locus TRB0803-003

Location in unit

Middle level, west of alley between Buildings B2 and B3.

Drawing

Photograph