KM461 (Early-Middle Roman Glass deep bowl) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Transparent, colorless. No impurities.

Technique

Free-blown.

Logical part of

Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila

Typological identification

Glass Free-Blown Cup or Deep Bowl

Comparanda

sim. AgoraXXXIV, pp. 100–101, 125, no. 215, fig. 15, pl. 20 (M. Stern; “probably” 1st–2nd century)

Comparanda

sim. BrockMackworthYoung1949, p. 85, grave no. 5.2, pl. 28:1 (Siphnos, Early Roman)

Comparanda

sim. Price1992, pp. 431–432, 451, no. 244, pl. 346 (Knossos, 1st-mid-2nd century)

Description

Deep bowl. Wide mouth. Vertical, straight, flaring (or inward-curving) rim with small, tooled-out fold at turn of S-curve or carination. Cylindrical or conical upper body.

Preservation description

One fragment preserves small part of body. Slight dulling, slight milky iridescence.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 938, 998, 999, no. 537, fig. 20.10

Maximum diameter

0.15

Maximum preserved dimension

0.033

Preserved height

0.006

Chronology comment

1st-2nd century

Material

Glass (Material)

Drawing

Photograph