Slag

Object Number: | MS5566 |
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Current Location: | Collections Storage |
Provenience: | Mediterranean |
Period: | Late Hellenistic Period Early Imperial Roman Period |
Section: | Mediterranean |
Materials: | Glass |
Technique: | Mosaic |
Outside Diameter: | 5.5 cm |
Credit Line: | Gift of Miss Lydia T. Morris, 1916 |
Other Number: | GL04 (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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.
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