Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Roman

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Rim fragment.
Translucent blue, purple appearing opaque brick red, blue and yellow mixed together appearing dull green, yellow, and white, with colorless glass.
Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; straight side, curving inward slightly at bottom.
Rim in colorless glass with white thread; body decorated with bands slanting from top left to bottom right, forming a regular pattern: colorless with spiral yellow thread, green, pale blue mixed with white, green, colorless with spiral yellow thread, blue, red, blue, colorless with spiral yellow thread.
A few pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and faint iridescent weathering on interior and iridescent weathering on edges.

Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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