Frit
A clay based composition that has been fused in a special oven, quenched to form glass, then granulated. It is used in compounding enamels and ceramic glazes, also used as a pigment and as a stand alone material in small objects like beads and amulets. By definition, Frit is a sintered polycrystalline unglazed material that is typically colored blue or green. Blue Frit is refered to as Egyptian blue, and Green frit is confined to Egypt.
A clay based composition that has been fused in a special oven, quenched to form glass, then granulated. It is used in compounding enamels and ceramic glazes, also used as a pigment and as a stand alone material in small objects like beads and amulets.
By definition, Frit is a sintered polycrystalline unglazed material that is typically colored blue or green. Blue Frit is refered to as Egyptian blue, and Green frit is confined to Egypt.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17759 | 32-40-315 | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Frit. Frog. [drawing 1:1] | |
 | 17761 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Frit. Triangle pattern border at top; tree; eyes or fish; man with uplifted arm and goat. |
| 17852 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. A mixed collection of carnelian, sard & agate lentoids & bugles, carnelian rings, lapis paste lentoids, glazed frit fluted ball, lapis ball, quartz lentoid, amethyst lentoid, pebble lentoid, 2 unshaped but pierced rock crystal lumps & a steatite cylinder seal completely defaced. |
| 17863 | 32-40-309 | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Puzuzu head. Glazed frit (glaze all decayed. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 17898 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Mixed lot, off many shapes and materials, found in or just below the floor of an early Neo-Babylonian level and presumably of that date, though some may well be old beads re-used. Shapes include ball, ring, cylinder, rhomboid, diamond, date shaped, elliptical, polygonal, double conoid, poppyseed, chisel, pear pendant, one miniature celt. Materials include carnelian, marble, steatite, sard, calcite, quartz, amethyst, agate, mother of pearl, shell, glazed frit, limestone (?), granite, hematite, crystal. |
| 17920 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Frit. Man shooting gazelle. |
| 18103 | 32-40-1 | (none) | (none) | Vase of glazed frit. The sides are decorated with petals in relief which were colored alternately yellow and black (?): the colors are bleached and the black (?) scarcely shows. [drawing] | |
| 18105 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Scarab seal of glazed frit, the glaze perished. Highly conventionalized: below, a goat? [drawing] |
| 18111B | 32-40-332 | (none) | (none) | [A] Beads. Carnelian rings: amethyst double conoids, agate date-shaped and flat oval; blue paste date shaped; agate cylindrical; oval domical agate, large shell cylinder with roughly engraved winged gryphon? And minute carnelian balls, also [B] cylinder seal, glazed frit; a scorpion and a winged gryphon. Also fragments of a [C] copper fibula, bow type. |
| 18131A.1 | 32-40-250 | (none) | (none) | [A.1-.3] Beads. A small collection. Hematite tubular and date shaped, carnelian balls and date shaped, jasper date shaped, glazed frit tubular, hematite rings, lapis date shaped. Also, a [B] black steatite duck-weight pierced for suspension and a [C] small shell lion also pierced. | |
| 18133 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet of glazed frit, bleached white the Egyptian Bes. |
| 18153 | 32-40-259 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian, agate, quartz, lapis and frit date shaped, lapis tubular, carnelian balls, and a circular handled stamp seal of frit with plain criss cross pattern below. | |
| 18170 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Frit. Over glazed = glaze now perished. Wild goat and tree. |
| 18173 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Glazed frit, glaze much perished. Winged demon before 2 standards -- a pair of horns and a cone respectively on a pole. |
| 18179 | 32-40-331 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Glazed frit, glaze perished. Kid and palm tree. |
| 18191 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Glazed frit: glaze perished. Two flying geese. |
| 18234 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. White frit (once glazed? But glaze all perished) A seated calf? [drawing] |
| 18264 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White frit once glazed but the glaze all perished. Gazelle and man. |
| 18576 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian rings and one short tube of white frit probably once glazed. |
| 18836 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small shells, pierced; carnelian cylindrical, carnelian ring; marble diamond; steatite discoid; chert (?) date-shaped, double conoid; white frit from amulet. A very poor lot. |
| 18851 | 35-1-31 | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Blue glazed frit. Im-dugud (?) figure. The blue glaze has perished on the front but is well preserved behind. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 19003 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Glazed frit(?) Hunter with gazelles. |
| 19051 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: two or three carnelian barrels; lapis tubes, 4 small balls or barrels; and small rings of glazed frit; three lapis frog amulets. |
| 19249 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Balls of frit, originally blue-glzed, now mostly bleached, a few carnelian and one steatite rings. |
| 19870 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Frit. A kneeling archer shooting at a star (?) x619 |
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