This group of sixteen glass pieces consists of both tesserae (pieces used to form mosaics) and shard (broken pieces of glass). The fragments range in color from an opaque blue to opaque green to transluscent yellow-green.
Miss. E. Bayliss, gift; to the Department of the Classics Harvard University, 1913, transfer; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1977.
Stone tesserae
1st-5th century CERomanGlass
1st-5th century CERomanStone tesserae
2nd-3rd century CERomanGlass
RomanStone
Stone tesserae
1st-5th century CERomanStone tesserae
1st-5th century CERomanStone and glass tesserae embedded in mortar
5th-6th centurySyrian