Primary Description:
Mosaic Plaque with Face. Canes of opaque white, opaque white with pink tinge, opaque red, translucent amethyst, translucent blue-grey and colorless with a yellow-brown tinge, pitted with some traces of weathering product in low spots; mosaic glass technique, upper surface reground. Fragment broken on all sides preserves faces of a female figure; above, a strip of blue-grey and white are sandwiched between a band of amethyst forming a cap or head cover of some sort; on the figure's left is preserved a small section of yellow-brown glass indicating the hair near the ear with small threads of amethyst indicating individual strands; the eyes and mouth are outlined with amethyst and further shaded by bands of light pink on an almost white face, the nose is delineated with three bands; pink, grey-pink and a cane of transparent glass with a yellow-brown tinge, a small section of the lip is preserved, highlighted with an opaque red element.