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Weathered, pale blue translucent glass beaker with straight sides that narrow inward slightly to a rounded rim

Beaker

Graeco-Roman

Intact, sack-shaped beaker in pale, blue glass; indented base; body flares outward fron base to a carnation; walls taper to a thin rolled rim. Intact; flaking iridescence and brown opalescence on interior, dirt accretions on bottom. Classification: C. Isings, Roman Glass from Dated Finds (Djakarta: Groningen, 1957), form 12. Comparisons: Adria, Archaeology Museum, 172M, 89M; Corning Museum of Glass 79.1.237.

Glass

Roman Imperial period

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