Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Roman

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Rim fragment.
Translucent purple, opaque yellow and red, and colorless.
Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; almost straight, thicker side at top, then curving inward at bottom.
Rim in purple with a white spiral thread; body decorated with parallel, slanting, vertical bands, forming a regular repeated pattern in purple, colorless, red, yellow, colorless, and yellow.
Pinprick bubbles; polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling and iridescent weathering on interior and rim; some weathering on edges.

Glass mosaic bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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