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Object Name: 
Fragment
Accession Number: 
68.1.58-102
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 3.6 cm; Estimate Diam: perhaps about 13 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
800-999
Primary Description: 
Fragment. Transparent purple; decorated in light green shading to yellow, and light brownish yellow. Blown; stained. Fragment: apparently cylindrical. Wall (Th. 0.1 cm) almost vertical, but with slightly convex profile. Decorated on both sides. On outside: in light green shading to yellow, two horizontal stripes with zigzags of same color above, between, and below, making lattice of adjoining equilateral triangles; if pattern is strictly repetitive and horizontal stripes are considered to be baselines, each triangle with apex pointing up contains cluster of three light brownish yellow dots, and each triangle with apex pointing down contains one light brownish yellow dot. On inside: uniform coating of light brownish yellow.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1968
Category: