Glass short-strip mosaic fragment

Roman

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Thin-walled body fragment.
Translucent purple, cobalt blue, turquoise blue layered with opaque yellow and appearing green, opaque white, yellow, and brick red.
Shallow convex curving side.
Short-strip mosaic pattern formed from lengths of striped canes in bands of white, blue, yellow, and green, combined with polygonal sections of a cane in a purple ground outlined in white with a ring of white dots around a central hollow red circle.
Polished exterior; slight pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling and iridescent weathering on interior and all but one edge.

Glass short-strip mosaic fragment, Glass, Roman

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