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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 11989 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. A few only of blue-glazed frit, small lentoids & 1 large barrel bead. |
| 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. |
| 12216 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Glazed frit bugles, now bleached white: small. |
| 12617 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace. Slender gold tubes. Carnelian rings. A few minute blue? Glazed frit. 5 large beads consisting of 2 gold worked double conoids, 2 carnelian balls, 1 agate bugle. [drawing] |
| 12641C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Copper bowl hemispherical. Distorted. [B] (2) Copper pin - straight type. [C] (3) Cylinder seal. Glazed frit in bad condition. Presentation scene. |
| 12686 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Miniature. Glazed frit. In shape of clenched fist. [drawing 1:1] |
| 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. |
| 12689 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Bluish green. Inscribed. Broken and much decayed. |
| 12797 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bes amulet. Glazed frit. |
| 12798 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Glazed frit. 3 balls. 1 fluted double conoid with rings ends; 1 ball with ringed ends thus [reference to drawing]; 1 flat seal - oval shaped with markings. |
| 13049 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian ring beads, glazed frit and a minute glazed frit amulet in shape of a male head - grotesque. [drawing] |
| 13053 | (none) | 1929,1017.31 | (none) | Finger ring. Gold. Single strip of gold frit hammered over to give the appearance of a double ring. |
| 14090 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. 3 registers. Zigzag decoration. [drawing] |
| 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. |
| 14422 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragments from a small pot of white frit originally covered with blue glaze. The shoulder decorated with impressed chevron. (restoration) It appears, so far as the decay of the frit allows of judgement, to have been moulded over a core which was afterward removed. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14469 | (none) | 1930,1213.151 | (none) | Bead. Blue glazed frit. Double conoid. |
| 15172 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Glazed barrels, frit. Agate lentoid. Carnelian double conoid. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15176 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Glazed frit miniature rings. A mass. |
| 15180 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: balls, barrels, faceted tubluar beads, 3-sided lentoids, lozenges, lunate. Amethyst, carnelian, chalcedony, agate, glazed frit: 1 blue glazed frit eye of Horus. Persian. |
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