Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Roman

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Rim fragment.
Translucent blue, turquoise blue largely layered with yellow appearing green, purple appearing opaque brick red, opaque yellow and white, with colorless glass.
Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; slightly convex curving side, tapering downward.
Rim in colorless glass with two yellow spiral threads; body decorated with horizontal wavy bands, forming a regular pattern: blue, white, green, yellow, red, green, and blue.
Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and iridescent weathering on interior; some weathering on jagged edges.

Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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