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Object NameFragment of a Composite Molding Strip

Made FromGlass

Date25 BCE-99 CE

Techniquemosaic glass

SizeOverall H: 4.1 cm

Accession Number59.1.563 D

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Ancient

Place Made

Roman Empire; possibly Egypt; possibly Italy

Physical DescriptionTranslucent medium to deep blue glass with strips or trails of opaque white, heavily weathered with thin iridescent film flaking off; mosaic glass technique. Narrow rectangular strip roughly trapezoidal in cross section, composed of three equal elements, two blue canes on either side of the central opaque white cane, on the smaller of the trapezoidal surfaces is fused a long narrow band which appears to be folded over and has multiple parallel trails of opaque white, the surface between this band and the base has been overlaid with white which runs down one side of the trapezoid.
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