Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Roman

Not on view

Rim fragment.
Translucent blue, light blue appearing green, purple appearing opaque brick red, yellow, and white, with colorless glass.
Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; almost straight, vertical side.
Rim in blue with single white spiral thread; body decorated with vertical bands, forming a regular pattern: green, yellow, purple, green, colorless with spiral yellow thread, blue, red, blue, colorless with spiral yellow thread.
Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; creamy weathering on interior and some iridescent weathering on edges.
The overlapping ends of the coil rim are visible at the right end of the fragment.

Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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