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)
81 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Paste. Poor condition. Simple criss-cross design. [drawing 1:1]
132 (none) (none) (none) Fr. of (amulet? or) inlay made of frit, originally green glazed. The lower part of a uraeus snake with wings low down: curious type. [drawing 1:1]
153 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Minute, of rock crystal and white semi-hemispherical pebble, 15 in all [crossed out] of transparent white glass [crossed out] crystal and opaque glass paste, white. 7 beads go to 1cm.
199 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Set of medium-sized opaque white glass ball beads, 18 in all, with these 6 ball or barrel beads of black and white glass imitation agate. All found close together and strung up on chance.
200 (none) (none) (none) Beads. String of mixed beads, carnelian, paste, crystal, etc. Restrung from isolated beads found on the level of the broken stone vases, but not in their vicinity: mostly towards the NW corner of the room. All deep down in the floor packing.
227 (none) (none) B15232 Faience stand. Bright green glaze, much perished (broken and mended.) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
242 (none) (none) B15264 String of beads Light brown glass, sphenoids, rough 100 in all [Annotated] Phil delete
408 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of large faience bowl. Persian period (?), blue glaze with incised zigzag and petal pattern and pinched knobs below rim.
607 (none) (none) (none) Beads of frit originally blue glazed, the glaze wholly perished. 15 spheroids and 4 bugles.
630 (none) (none) (none) Faience figurine. Fragment of green-glazed frit: Osirid(?) figure. [drawing 1:1]
672E (none) (none) B15261 [underlined] Beads. A large collection, re-strung on such evidence as could be obtained from the burial. See field notes A. Carnelian ball beads, 41 in all. B. Lentoids and carnelian, agate, lapis, hematite + glass paste, 42 in all. C. Small beads, ball, discoid, etc., in carnelian, crystal, lapis, amethystine quartz, black stone + paste. D. Very large lentoid + barrel beads in stone + paste, 1 paste cylinder seal roughly engraved with a man left shooting at a winged griffon. (in regular Deri Huzuh style), a cylinder seal of black steatite sketchily engraved but defaced, another with seated divine figure right and standing adorant left and one column inscription, also very poor work: also shell disk beads: large beads etc... in all 33, shell disks, 167. E. Small carnelian spacers, with small beads of various shapes in glass paste, frit, pebble, stone, etc. F. Mixed lot of beads in stone and paste.
672F (none) (none) (none) [underlined] Beads. A large collection, re-strung on such evidence as could be obtained from the burial. See field notes A. Carnelian ball beads, 41 in all. B. Lentoids and carnelian, agate, lapis, hematite + glass paste, 42 in all. C. Small beads, ball, discoid, etc., in carnelian, crystal, lapis, amethystine quartz, black stone + paste. D. Very large lentoid + barrel beads in stone + paste, 1 paste cylinder seal roughly engraved with a man left shooting at a winged griffon. (in regular Deri Huzuh style), a cylinder seal of black steatite sketchily engraved but defaced, another with seated divine figure right and standing adorant left and one column inscription, also very poor work: also shell disk beads: large beads etc... in all 33, shell disks, 167. E. Small carnelian spacers, with small beads of various shapes in glass paste, frit, pebble, stone, etc. F. Mixed lot of beads in stone and paste.
676B (none) (none) (none) Set of beads. (A) Large in very light-colored carnelian? =P252 [drawing] (B) String of mixed beads some paste and glass (most of the last broken) and shell center-pieces, with dotted ornament. =P52 [drawing 1:1]
695 (none) (none) B15259 Beads. Small string of little glass and paste beads, globular, with two or three larger ditto, and 6 miniature Puzuzu heads in green-glazed frit and (1) in lapis paste, the heads 5mm high.
799 (none) (none) (none) Beads. of (crossed out word) carnelian and amethyst, with lunar pendant of agate. Restrung approximately in original order. Carnelian, 58; amethyst, 17; 1 pebble; 1 lapis paste; 1 agate pendant.
998 (none) (none) B15393 Clay Vase. Very white paste, probably once glazed, but all surface gone. Cf P.75 [drawing]
1270 (none) (none) B15724 Clay monkey. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. P. [drawing 1:1]
1287 (none) (none) B15718 Clay Rosette. Fragment of light clay. Like U.1286, but larger. P.
1401 (none) (none) (none) Seal(?) in form of small ring. Green glaze faience. [drawing 1:1]
1404 (none) (none) (none) Glass fragment. White surface, with blue-grey leaf pattern. Probably from bottle. In text, see U.1359 [drawing 1:1]
1409 (none) (none) B15725 Mask. Faience, traces of blue glaze. Small grotesque head. P.
1637 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. large bugles and ball beads, frit, originally blue glazed, now bleached white.: 36 in all.
1700 (none) (none) (none) Glass paste fragments. Blue and yellow bands.
1715 (none) (none) B15717 Frit ornament. Pectoral. Pierced at each end. P. [drawing 1:1]
1716 (none) (none) (none) Frit ornament. Pectoral, like U.1715 but smaller, broken at one end.

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Faience - Frit - Glass Paste

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