Glass mosaic bowl fragment
Bottom fragment.
Translucent purple, cobalt blue, and opaque white.
Thick convex curving bottom.
Ribbon mosaic pattern formed from sections of a single cane in a purple ground with irregular white splashes and wavy white and blue threads in parallel lines.
Polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; creamy iridescent weathering covering most of interior; iridescence on edges.
Possibly reworked into a disk in antiquity.
Probably part of the concave base of a ribbed bowl.
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