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)
16795.1 31-43-148 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Beads: glass paste: balls, lentoids, pear-shaped beads, 1 variegated glass bugle bead-combed decoration. Also carnelian, agate and steatite; and some worked yellow glazed beads.
16795.2 (none) 1931,1010.260 (none) [.1-.2] Beads: glass paste: balls, lentoids, pear-shaped beads, 1 variegated glass bugle bead-combed decoration. Also carnelian, agate and steatite; and some worked yellow glazed beads.
16796A (none) (none) (none) [A-E] 5 Puzuzu heads. Glazed frit. [F] 1 glazed scaraboid bead with quasi-hieroglyphic sign.
16796B (none) (none) (none) [A-E] 5 Puzuzu heads. Glazed frit. [F] 1 glazed scaraboid bead with quasi-hieroglyphic sign.
16796C (none) (none) (none) [A-E] 5 Puzuzu heads. Glazed frit. [F] 1 glazed scaraboid bead with quasi-hieroglyphic sign.
16796D (none) (none) (none) [A-E] 5 Puzuzu heads. Glazed frit. [F] 1 glazed scaraboid bead with quasi-hieroglyphic sign.
16796E (none) (none) (none) [A-E] 5 Puzuzu heads. Glazed frit. [F] 1 glazed scaraboid bead with quasi-hieroglyphic sign.
1700 (none) (none) (none) Glass paste fragments. Blue and yellow bands.
17002 31-43-364 (none) (none) Model comb. Glazed frit. One end missing. Holder decorated with
17004 (none) (none) (none) Frog amulet. Frit. Glazed. Left legs missing. Type. Same as U.16634.
17007 31-43-637 (none) (none) Vase. Glass paste (?) Miniature. Type same as U.16388 q.v. to be drawn.
17008 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Glass paste rings - minute. Carnelian rings - minute.
17010 (none) (none) (none) Bottle. Glass paste. Miniature. Broken and part of rim missing. Type. Similar to U.16388.
17021.1 31-43-150 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Beads. About 130 in all. Carnelian, lentoids, balls, rings, double conoids, discoids. Lapis lazuli double conoids, rings and discoid. Glass paste balls, and a few worked discoids.
17021.2 (none) 1931,1010.261 (none) [.1-.2] Beads. About 130 in all. Carnelian, lentoids, balls, rings, double conoids, discoids. Lapis lazuli double conoids, rings and discoid. Glass paste balls, and a few worked discoids.
17025 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Mostly glass paste, balls and rings and 1 Puzuzu (?) head. Glass paste represented as a roaring lion.
17031 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Larger beads formed a necklace, smaller a bracelet carnelian discoids, rings, balls. Glass paste balls. Miniature glass paste puzuzu heads. 1 silver ball bead. [additional notes on back of card]
17040 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. Carnelian scaraboids, double conoids, rings. Lapis lazuli scaraboids. Glass paste ball beads. 1 greenish glass paste scaraboid with quasi heiroglyphic signs? A second marked thus [drawing]
17043 (none) 1931,1010.242 (none) Beads. Glass paste balls and lentoids and barrels with combed pattern. Carnelian lentoids, discoids.
17045 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Agate large cylindrical and lentoid. Granite lentoid. Carnelian discoids, balls, rings. Glass paste balls, rings, double conoids.
17047 (none) (none) (none) Spindle whorl head? Glass paste? Blue. Hemispherical. Perforated through center [drawing 1:1]
17050 31-43-170 (none) (none) Beads. From a bracelet. Glass paste ring beads - reddish. White glass paste discoids with black centers. 12 minute glass paste puzuzu head amulets.
17051 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. Amethyst [represented in drawing] four sided, lozange shaped in section carnelian. Double conoids and lentoids and diamonds. Silver ball beads. Glass paste rings, balls, discoids, barrels. Agate. Squares. Lapis lazuli flat lentoid with dragon (?) engraved amethyst scaraboid with fish (?) engraved. [drawing]
17053 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 5 amethysts [represented in drawing] four sided. 1 oval carnelian. 1 large glass paste double conoid. [drawing]
17056 31-43-159 (none) (none) Beads. Amethyst oval, flat on our side, convex on the other. Quartz lentoids and double conoids. Jasper lentoid. Agate barrels and lentoids. Granite double conoid. Black steatite amulet, on oval shaped stamp seal with an animal figure engraved thereon surmounted by a squatting lion. Glass paste scaraboid bead. Carnelian double conoids.

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Faience - Frit - Glass Paste

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