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Translucent blue green.
Broad, everted, tubular rim, made by folding out, down, round, and in, with beveled upper surface; ovoid body; concave bottom.
Intact; a few bubbles; slight dulling, faint iridescence, and brownish weathering, with one large patch of limy encrustation on exterior, and brilliant iridescent weathering inside tubular rim.
Plain blown glass.
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Title: Glass cinerary urn (olla)
Period: Imperial
Date: mid-1st–mid 2nd century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Glass; blown
Dimensions: Diam.: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
Object Number: 81.10.8
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