Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 1995 52 | |
Title: | GLASS WINDOW PANE | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Year: | 1995 | |
Object Number: | 52 | |
Description: | Glass window pane of flat rectangular sheet; irregular, wavy edge with rounded profile. Perpendicular edges square in profile (cuts or breaks?); one has "kink" possibly from pulling or lifting with tool while glass cooled. | |
Decoration: | Four ripples of purplish colored glass, perhaps result of improper mixing of manganese-based decolorant. Less corroded side originally glossy, other side matte. | |
Material: | Greenish glass with few bubbles. | |
Munsell Color: | Perhaps originally 5GY 8/6 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Four joining frgts., preserving one edge, two corners, and line of cement for setting near one corner and parallel to edge. Non-joining frgts., placed in Lot 1995-71. Some corrosion. | |
Manufacture: | OT rolled glass | |
Dimensions Actual: | Th. 0.002 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.286, W. 0.159 | |
Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
Chronology: | Late Roman context, early 6th c. CE | |
Area: | Panayia Bath | |
Context: | NB881 B45 P60 | |
Provenance: | Corinth ? | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Panayia Bath Notebook Page: NB 881b, spread 36 (pp. 60 - 61) |