Glass mosaic shallow bowl fragment

Roman

Not on view

Translucent blue and purple, opaque white and yellow, and colorless.

Thin-walled, concave curving body fragment.

Mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of canes: one in a blue ground outlined in white with a circle of white rods around a central yellow rod, all tinged with purple, and another in a yellow ground, layered with colorless; at one corner, the trace of a third cane in purple outlined in white.

Polished exterior; slight pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; some bubbles; slight dulling, pitting, and iridescence on interior; weathering on all jagged edges.

Glass mosaic shallow bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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