KM469 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Window Pane) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Transparent to semitransparent, yellowish green to light yellowish green (PMS 7491-7746–7748). Numerous pinprick to medium, spherical and elongated bubbles, some aligned and opening at surface.
Technique
Blown-cylinder or “muff” process.
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Window Pane
Description
Broad glass windowpane(s). Glossy on one side and matte to semiglossy on other (b, c), or both sides glossy (a). Even thickness narrowing to sharp, rounded edge (c).
Preservation description
Three nonjoining fragments. Slight pitting and slight feather cracking; slight yellow iridescence and slight gray enamel flaking.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 977-979, 1039, 1040, no. 670, fig. 20.33
Other Dimensions
Th. 0.002 (a, b, c)
Other Dimensions
max.pres.dim. 0.044 (a), 0.033 (b), 0.014 (c)
Chronology comment
Middle Roman-Early Byzantine
Material
Glass (Material)
Photograph