Glass mosaic vessel fragment

Roman

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Translucent cobalt blue, purple, and honey yellow, and opaque white.

Thin-walled curving body fragment.

Mosaic pattern formed from sections of composite canes with distorted designs: one in a blue ground with a circle of white rods surrounding a central purple rod, outlined in white, and another in a purple ground with white rods.

Polished exterior; slight pitting of surface bubbles; dulling, pitting, and slight iridescence on interior; weathering on some jagged edges.

Glass mosaic vessel fragment, Glass, Roman

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