Glass ribbed bowl

Roman

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Translucent honey yellow; trail in opaque white.
Knocked-off, ground rim; short concave neck; horizontal bulging collar below; squat globular body curving in to almost flat bottom.
Trail wound spirally from bottom around body to neck, thick at bottom, but fine and thin at top; twenty-seven, shallow, slightly irregular, vertical ribs, extending from bulge below neck to undercurve of side.
Intact, except for one small, weathered chip in rim; a few bubbles; dulling and pitting of surface bubbles, most of surfaces covered with thick white weathering and iridescence.

Glass ribbed bowl, Glass, Roman

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