Glass striped mosaic fragment
Not on view
Translucent honey yellow, blue, purple, turquoise blue appearing partially green, opaque white, and colorless.
Flat section, possibly from the bottom of a pyxis (lidded box).
Striped mosaic and ribbon mosaic patterns in combination: a length of a single cane in honey yellow with white threads running alongside a row of roughly square canes of three different patterns, one in colorless with a central white rod within rings in purple and white, placed singly flanked by two pairs of canes, one in blue with a central white rod within rings in purple and white, the other in turquoise blue with a central white rod within rings in purple and white.
Ground and polished on upper surface, trimmed down along edges; some bubbles; some pitting and weathering on upper surface, dulling and iridescent weathering on underside, some weathering on edges.
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