Slag
MS5566
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| 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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