Glass and Related Material

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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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
16735	(none)	1931,1010.211	(none)	Model comb. Frit. Holder decorated with pair of animals heads(?) [drawing1:1]
17071C	(none)	1931,1010.204	(none)	Frit amulets. [A] A pair of fish (A) and (B) [not reference to multiple objects] tails missing. [drawing 1:1] [B] A tortoise. [C] A pair of ducks. [D] A bead pendant. [E] A monkey (head missing). [F] Rosettes. [Drawing 1:1]
16128A	(none)	1931,1010.203	(none)	[A-B] Pair of tortoises. White frit. Criss-cross markings on back end and underside. Pierced for suspension. cf U.16755. [drawing 1:1]
17070D	(none)	1931,1010.202	(none)	Frog amulets 6 [one miniature] [A-F]. Frit. Two glazed yellow. Glazed yellow. [drawing 1:1]
17070C	(none)	1931,1010.201	(none)	Frog amulets 6 [one miniature] [A-F]. Frit. Two glazed yellow. Glazed yellow. [drawing 1:1]
15193	(none)	1930,1213.96	(none)	Beads. Amethyst, carnelian and glzed frit. Faceted lentoids, 4-faced - lonzenge shaped in section, and hexagonal amethyst lentoids. Carnelian rings and balls, convex on either side and elliptical in section.
15192.1	(none)	1930,1213.93	(none)	[.1-.2] Beads. Glazed frit and copper ball beads, and a few square section bone bugles.
14335	(none)	1930,1213.92	(none)	Necklace. Glazed frit(?) fluted double conoids; 1 lapis lazuli double conoid; 1 rock crystal cylindrical; 1 carnelian ring bead.
(none)	(none)	1930,1213.675	(none)	(none)
15800	(none)	1930,1213.525	(none)	Puzuzu head. Frit.
14469	(none)	1930,1213.151	(none)	Bead. Blue glazed frit. Double conoid.
12086	(none)	1929,1017.379	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Rock crystal. Hero fighting rampant lion; repeated twice. White paste core run down centre of seal.
12688	(none)	1929,1017.365	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Bluish green. Inscribed. 7 columns of inscription and a remaining portion of seal a heavily draped standing figure right hand upraised in salutation engraving of head has flaked away.
13053	(none)	1929,1017.31	(none)	Finger ring. Gold. Single strip of gold frit hammered over to give the appearance of a double ring.
11427	(none)	1929,1017.306	(none)	Beads. Re-strung mostly in original order (see field notes). Carnelian, lapis, silver, jasper and glass.
12085	(none)	1929,1017.296	(none)	Beads. Carnelian & frit lentoids; and lapis amulet in shape of a fly.
12003	(none)	1929,1017.259	(none)	Beads. a few only, small of lapis, agate & carnelian, with a few glass rings.
8785	(none)	1928,1009.97	(none)	144 paste? beads
7564A	(none)	1928,1009.95	(none)	[A-B] Two necklaces. Carnelian, frit, paste. Found loose in soil and arbitrarily re-strung. Both similar in type. Ribbed frit ring beads predominate. No mention of these beads in field notes (or in written account of site).
9000	(none)	1928,1009.378	(none)	Originally of wood (which has disappeared and left no trace at all), the top and edges encrusted with bone, shell, lapis and red paste tesserae set in bitumen: the bone tesserae are themselves engraved with geometrical and other patterns and inlaid with red paste and lapis. The board is in 2 unequal parts, rectangular, joined by a narrow neck: the upper part consists of 6 squares inside the border, the neck is 1 square wide and 2 long, the lower part had originally 4 rows of squares (12) and below those one or more rows of long triangular tesserae, shell and mother of pearl, with red paste triangles between them, the points of (one row of) the white tesserae pointing downwards. When found the object lay face downwards and on a slant: the upper part, nect, and 3 rows of squares of the lower part were complete, all except for one square at the bottom of the 4th row there was left there in position only a broken corner of a square. The broken square and 3 others, and also a number of triangles, were found separately in the dirt in front and below, but part of a row of white triangles (the red paste was reduced to powder) lay points upwards and face outwards against the back of the board: clearly the latter had been broken and doubled back: the tesserae at the line of the break had sprung and been dislodged. [drawing 1:5]
7553	(none)	1928,1009.16	(none)	Cylinder seal. Frit. Grey. Stag, 2 stars, upright pole? Spear sticking vertically in ground. Persian.
7593	(none)	1928,1009.148	(none)	Glass rod. Fragment. Black. Composed of long fine strands. Pinched at one end thus showing that it had been used at Ur in the fabrication of glass ware.
7921	(none)	1928,1009.143	(none)	Bird. Miniature. Frit. Two holes pierced for eyes and one in each wing.
7953	(none)	1928,1009.12	(none)	Cylinder seal. White crystal, with copper caps; carinated. Two Gilgamesh figures each fighting a lion. Large cylinder, well cut. The central hole is filled with white paste having chevron bands of bright red which shows through the crystal. Inscribed.
3187	(none)	1927,1003.257	(none)	Fragment of blue glass paste. [drawing 1:1]