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Translucent light yellow green; blobs in translucent turquoise blue.
Rounded, thickened rim; funnel-shaped body with straight sides; small, thick, rounded bottom with pontil mark.
On body, four roughly oval blobs applied to side halfway down.
Intact; blowing striations and a few pinprick bubbles; brilliant iridescent weathering and some soil encrustation.
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Title: Glass beaker
Period: Late Imperial
Date: 4th century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Glass; blown and blobbed
Dimensions:
H.: 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)
Diam.: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915
Object Number: 15.43.169
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