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Group of thirty-three glass tesserae

Group of thirty-three glass tesserae

Roman

Group of thirty-three glass tesserae in opaque blue and green as well as transluscent brown and yellow-green. Glass tesserae were most often used on wall mosaics (as opposed to floor mosaics).

Glass tesserae

Roman period

Mosaics