Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Roman

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Rim fragment.
Translucent cobalt blue, purple, opaque white, yellow, with colorless glass.
Applied coil rim with slightly beveled, vertical lip; almost straight side, tapering slightly at bottom.
Rim in colorless glass with fine double spiral thread; body decorated with wavy bands slanting from top left to right, forming a regular pattern: purple, blue, colorless with double spiral yellow thread, white, purple with three white lines, and white.
Some pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles and one large weathered scratch; iridescent weathering on interior and edges.

Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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