- KM476 (Early Roman Imported Red Cast-Glass Bowl) [permalink]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Material description
- Opaque, medium to dark red or “beet,” “sealing-wax,” “brick” (close to PMS 7419). Frequent small, spherical bubbles opening across surface.
- Technique
- Cast. Faint striations on interior from polishing.
- Logical part of
- Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
- Typological identification
- Cast Glass Bowl
- Typological identification comment
- Possibly from carinated bowl cf. Isings1957 Form 2: e.g., Berger1960, pp. 25, 28, no. 38, pls. 3, 18 (Vindonissa, Tiberian-Claudian); vonSaldernetal1974, pp. 105, 108, 110-111, 113, nos. 280, 281, 286, 287 (Sammlung Oppenländer, Cologne); CzurdaRuth1979, pp. 67-71, nos. 535-537, pl. 3 (Magdalensberg, early 1st century CE); Grose1989, pp. 305-307, nos. 419, 421, 424, 425, 427 (Toledo; “probably” Italian product, 1st century CE); SternSchlickNolte1994, pp. 328-239, no. 99 (Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart; from Italy or eastern Mediterranean, first half 1st century CE).
- Description
- Bowl? Flat floor. Italian or eastern Mediterranean product.
- Preservation description
- One fragment preserves small part of bottom or body. Very slight gouging.
- Published as
- Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 925-926, 991, 992, no. 518, fig. 20.6
- Maximum preserved dimension
- 0.033
- Thickness
- 0.005
- Chronology comment
- 1st century CE
- Material
- Glass (Material)
- Photograph
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