Glass network mosaic bowl fragment

Roman

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Rim fragment.
Translucent turquoise blue, purple appearing opaque brick red, opaque white, and colorless.
Applied coil rim with almost flat lip; slightly tapering side, then curving inward at bottom.
Rim in blue with purple spiral thread; body decorated with eleven colorless canes decorated with two spirally twisted white threads.
Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling, pitting, and small patches of creamy iridescence weathering on interior, and some iridescent weathering on edges.

Glass network mosaic bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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