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MS5566

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS5566
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Late Hellenistic Period | Early Imperial Roman Period
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass
Technique Mosaic
Description

Ball of fused glass, broken, consisting of transparent green-tinted glass (part with many spherical bubbles), translucent purple glass, millefiori glass of opaque yellow circular rods in translucent green, and millefiori glass of opaque white in translucent blue. This ball was formed from broken fragments, to be reused as cullet.

Outside Diameter 5.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of Miss Lydia T. Morris, 1916
Other Number GL04 (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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