Corinth Object: MF 1995 52
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)