KM475 (Middle-Late Roman Glass Bracelet) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Opaque, medium blue (close to PMS 7455) with horizontal striations in bluish colorless (PMS 656) to white. No impurities.
Technique
Rod-formed. Tooled ribbing.
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Glass Bracelet
Comparanda
cf. BagattiMilik1958, p. 160, pl. 40, photograph 124:7–11 (Mt. Olivet, Jerusalem)
Comparanda
cf. Baramki1932, p. 4, pl. 6:13 (Karm al-Shaikh, Jerusalem)
Comparanda
cf. Crowfoot1957c, pp. 419–420 (Samaria-Sebaste)
Comparanda
cf. Harden1936, pp. 282–283, no. 851, pl. XXI (Karanis)
Comparanda
cf. Harrison1947, p. 269, pl. 112:14, 15 (Tel en-Nasḅeh)
Comparanda
cf. Iliffe1934, p. 89, pl. XXIV:2 (El Bassa, Late Roman)
Comparanda
cf. Macalister1912, vol. 1, p. 351, vol. 3, pl. CII:138:13 (Gezer)
Comparanda
cf. Petrie1906, p. 41, pl. XXXVIIIA (Goshen, Egypt)
Comparanda
cf. Spaer1988, pp. 55–56, figs. 4, 5; Spaer2001, pp. 194–196 (Type B2c; Palestine, 3rd–5th century)
Comparanda
cf. Spaer2001, pp. 195, 199, 366, nos. 443–445, pl. 33 (Israel Museum, Jerusalem; “eastern Mediterranean, likely to be local,” 3rd–5th century)
Comparanda
cf. Zouhdi1974, pp. 92–93, fig. 4 (Damascus Museum; from Hauran)
Description
Bracelet. Wide, rounded, vertical ribs on exterior up to narrow borders. Two horizontal grooves near edge on interior.
Preservation comment
One fragment preserves small segment of ring. Slight pitting and slight chipping; slight milky iridescence.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 982, 1043, no. 680, fig. 20.36
Diameter
0.07
Preserved length
0.011
Estimated rim diameter
0.07
Thickness
0.006
Width
0.012
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph