Period: Early Imperial, Augustan
Date: late 1st century B.C.
Culture: Roman
Medium: Glass
Dimensions: H. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm), diameter 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)

Colorless, translucent purple, translucent honey yellow, translucent cobalt blue, opaque yellow, and opaque white. Vertical, angular rim; convex curving side, tapering downwards; convex bottom. Four large segments of colorless, purple, yellow, and blue, and applied to the interior of the bowl at the center of each segment a hanging garland, comprising an inverted V-shaped white string above a U-shaped swag made up of a mosaic pattern formed from polgonal or circular sections of four different composite canes: one in a yellow ground with a white spiral, a second in a purple ground with yellow rods, the third in a colorless ground with white lines raditating from a central yellow rod, and the fourth in a blue ground a white spiral.