Glass is a solid material that is often transparent and constructed of silicas and sodiums. It is a light admitting material usually used in vessels.  The earliest known glass objects were probably beads, possibly produced as slag during faience production.  This then morphed into creating glass vessels and vials.  

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
8471 (none) (none) B17200 Amulet Frit Squatting monkey Originally green - now bleached. [drawing] 1:1
8798 (none) (none) B17213 Beard Frit Originally glazed. Bleached white. Fragment - Upper portion missing, originally intended for inlay? Slightly convex. At bottom of beard two rows of curls. [drawing 1:1]
9930 (none) (none) B17589 Beads. Very small. Rings of lapis, white paste and silver.
(none) 30-12-402 (none) B18121 (none)
18125 (none) (none) B18485 Vase of glass paste. Greenish grey surface (black in section) with combed design roughly applied in opaque white glass; this is merely squeezed to the surface (by the cake-icing technique) and not incorporated in the body of the vase: it is the last degeneration of the real Phoenician glass but may be itself Phoenician. Part of rim missing.

Child Terms

Faience - Frit - Glass Paste

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Inorganic Remains > Glass and Related Material


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British Museum Semantic Web Collection Online