Striped mosaic glass lens-shaped dish fragment. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: 1 1/16 × 1 9/16 × 1/8 in. (2.6 × 4 × 0.3 cm) Estimated diameter: 3 9/16 in. (9 cm). Date: late 1st century B.C.-early 1st century A.D.. Translucent cobalt blue, partially appearing light blue or green, opaque yellow, white, and red, and colorless. Upright, rounded rim; shallow, convex curving side. Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of two composite canes and squarish sections laid side by side in parallel rows: one cane in green, blue, red, and yellow stripes arranged in a mirror pattern on either side of
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Striped mosaic glass lens-shaped dish fragment. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: 1 1/16 × 1 9/16 × 1/8 in. (2.6 × 4 × 0.3 cm) Estimated diameter: 3 9/16 in. (9 cm). Date: late 1st century B.C.-early 1st century A.D.. Translucent cobalt blue, partially appearing light blue or green, opaque yellow, white, and red, and colorless. Upright, rounded rim; shallow, convex curving side. Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of two composite canes and squarish sections laid side by side in parallel rows: one cane in green, blue, red, and yellow stripes arranged in a mirror pattern on either side of a blue stripe, and the other in blue, light blue, red, and yellow stripes arranged in a mirror pattern on either side of a blue stripe; a blue network cane wound with a white thread; and three squares arranged in a row, one in white, the second in a blue ground with rods in concentric white, blue, and white circles and a central red dot, and the third in stripes of streaky blue, white, and purple, flanked by a single blue network cane with a yellow spiral thread. A broad blue network cane with a colorless spiral thread outlined in white is attached as a rim. Polished on interior, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and creamy weathering on exterior and jagged edges. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.