- KM460 (Roman Glass shallow bowl or lamp) [permalink]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Material description
- Transparent, light greenish blue (close to PMS 331). Sparse pinprick bubbles.
- Technique
- Free-blown. Fire-polished lip.
- Logical part of
- Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
- Typological identification
- Glass Bowl Lamp
- Typological identification
- Glass Free-Blown Shallow Bowl or Dish
- Typological identification comment
- Perhaps a Late Antique eastern bowl-lamp: cf. CrowfootHarden1931, pp. 199, 203, n. 4, pl. XXIX:19; Patrich1988, pp. 139, 141, no. 32, pl. XIV (Type D; Rehovot in the Negev, 5th-7th century)
- Typological identification comment
- Perhaps a common bowl form: e.g., Isings1957 Forms 42, 43, 80
- Description
- Shallow bowl or lamp. Thin wall. Widely flaring, outward-curving rim with rounded lip.
- Preservation description
- One fragment preserves small part of rim. Good condition.
- Published as
- Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 951, 1017, 1018, no. 605, fig. 20.18
- Preserved height
- 0.09
- Estimated rim diameter
- 0.139
- Chronology comment
- Roman
- Explanation of deposition
- Residual in Early Byzantine colluvium? Represents activity in area?
- Material
- Glass (Material)
- In Excavated Unit
- Locus TRB0914-004
- Location in unit
- Middle level over Building B6, south of Octagon.
- Drawing
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