Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Roman

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Rim fragment.
Translucent blue, blue layered with yellow appearing dull green, purple appearing opaque streaky brick red, and opaque yellow, with colorless glass.
Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; convex curving side, tapering in sharply at bottom.
Rim in blue with single white spiral thread; body decorated with vertical bands slanting slightly from top left to bottom right, forming regular pattern, repeated three times in red, blue, red, and green, yellow, green, interspersed with thin lines of colorless glass.
Two conjoined fragments; pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and creamy weathering on interior; some iridescent weathering on jagged edges.

Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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