Glass mosaic fragment

Roman

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Thick-walled fragment.
Translucent cobalt blue, purple, and turquoise blue layered with opaque yellow and appearing green, opaque white and yellow, and colorless.
Shallow curving side or bottom, with convex curving exterior and rounded edges.
Short-strip mosaic pattern formed from sections and lengths of three canes: one in a purple ground with a white spiral; a second in colorless and blue bands, and the third in green, yellow, and colorless stripes.
Polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior and rounded upper edges; dulling, pitting, and creamy weathering on interior and lower parts of edges.
Perhaps cut down in antiquity for use as an inlay.

Glass mosaic fragment, Glass, Roman

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