Glass mosaic inlay fragment

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Opaque brick red.
Flat, rectangular panel, with two straight edges.
Marbled mosaic pattern in a red ground with many deeper red swirls.
Chipped along two adjoining edges, corner, and part of underside; polished upper side; pitting of surface bubbles on upper side; thick, creamy weathering on underside and all but one edge.

Fragment of a flat panel in opaque streaky red glass.

Glass mosaic inlay fragment, Glass, Roman

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