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)
8471	(none)	(none)	B17200	Amulet Frit Squatting monkey Originally green - now bleached. [drawing] 1:1
8551	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads of glazed frit. Heavily ribbed balls. Discorloured: probably originally blue.
8785	(none)	1928,1009.97	(none)	144 paste? beads
8787	(none)	(none)	(none)	FAIENCE MASK Portion of neck missing. Each ear perforated three times. Two rows of holes partially perforated through neck. Hole partially perforated through middle of mask from the back. Fine bold modelling. Holes in neck inlaid with bitumen? Vol VII. [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]
8996	(none)	(none)	(none)	Shell roundel. Convex above with incised 8 point star, the petals inlaid with lapis and red paste, 3 red and 5 blue of which one is missing. [drawing]
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]
9174A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Beads. A few small beads, mostly glaze, and one big glazed firt bugle bead. [B-C] Also, pair of small silver earrings.
9238	(none)	(none)	(none)	Frit Beads Minute rim beads; ball beads and a few lenoids
9268	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Frit Subject indistinct: A crescent moon and standing warriors
9537C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads A/ Short string, long carnelian bugle, and 3 smaller ditto., separated by silver balls. B/ Diamond shaped lapis beads alternating with flat silver-plate beads. [drawing] C/ Mixed string of small gold fluted balls, lapis, carnelian, agate and paste, restrung mostly in original order (see Field Notes) except that there are no silver beads: in the field notes the 2 strings B & C were probably confused)
9629	(none)	(none)	B16930	Beads Silver, carnelian, lapis, copper and paste: original order noted in Field Notes: forming a separate necklace.
9775	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads A great quantity of small rings of blue glazed frit.
9826	(none)	(none)	(none)	Frit Ring beads Glaze Many hundreds. Worn all round head. cf. Field Notes.
9930	(none)	(none)	B17589	Beads. Very small. Rings of lapis, white paste and silver.
9954	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads Small lapis, carnelian and paste rings Originally strung in sets of 3
10171	(none)	(none)	(none)	3 Beads Glazed double conoids Strung round neck All broken. Majority had perished
10712	(none)	(none)	(none)	15 Discoid Beads Glazed (originally blue?) frit beads & black steatite? Probably buttons of Field Notes [drawing]
10820E	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tomb Group. (A)[A and G] 2 silver earrings, 2 1/2 coils. 1-broken and part missing. (B) [B and H] 2 cockle shells with green paint (both broken) (C) Broken silver finger ring, 4 strands of wire, the 2 middle strands spiral. Part missing. (D) Large shell of the type used to serve as a lamp. Badly broken. (E) Few silver double conoids, a few lapis and remains of glazed frit ring beads. (F) A copper pin with a copper ball head. Badly broken. Type V.
11427	(none)	1929,1017.306	(none)	Beads. Re-strung mostly in original order (see field notes). Carnelian, lapis, silver, jasper and glass.
11473	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Of rock crystal. Unfinished. 3 figures, 1 seated, 2 standing, have been roughly ground out all but the heads: no engraving as yet, but grinding only. The cylinder is bored and in the bore-hole ridges have been worked to take colored paste.
11989	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. A few only of blue-glazed frit, small lentoids & 1 large barrel bead.
12003	(none)	1929,1017.259	(none)	Beads. a few only, small of lapis, agate & carnelian, with a few glass rings.
12035	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Minute ring beads, lapis & frit, & 1 large calcite bead (barrel). [drawing of Calcite bead]
12085	(none)	1929,1017.296	(none)	Beads. Carnelian & frit lentoids; and lapis amulet in shape of a fly.