Glass mosaic bowl fragments

Greek

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Colorless, translucent cobalt blue, opaque yellow, opaque white, and semi-opaque turquoise green and deep purple.
Hemispherical bowl fragments with a slightly inverted rim with rounded edge; convex curving side.
Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of two composite canes, one in a colorless ground with a yellow spiral and the other, much less frequently used, in a blue ground with a white spiral; a network cane wound spirally with colorless, green, yellow, and purple trails is attached as a rim.
Broken and repaired from a dozen pieces, with several holes and one small area of fill in side; another eleven non-joining frgaments are also preserved; on interior, dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering, and on exterior, surface polishing.

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