Glass Paste

This material is composed of the same elements as frit, mainly silicates, but not as highly fired. Usually used in beads.

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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)
18740	35-1-78	(none)	(none)	Beads: of glazed frit and glass paste mostly yellow and green, many of the beads being green with a yellow tip; these are pear-shaped or date-shaped; there are also plain yellow ring beads, a lapis scaraboid and a green-glazed frit scarab, and yellow date-shaped beads.
18929A	(none)	(none)	(none)	(A) Beads: carnelian date-shaped and cylindrical, one of the latter with bleached spiral line and rings: lapis double conoids and paste ditto steatite tubular, chisel pendant, frog amulet, and quartzite flat truncated date-shaped. (B) Two hair-rings of thin gold wire, five spiral coils. Also [C] a copper pin, type 2a. [C] a copper pin, type 2a.
18932	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: large steatite barrel, carnelian double conoids, date-shaped and balls; agate barrels and date-shaped; crystal date-shaped; carnelian tubular, long steatite, long date-shaped, engraved paste rings. Restrung in original order. [drawing]
18942A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Beads. Carnelian tubular and rings; paste date-shaped, steatite fly and frog amulets; fluted balls. Arbitrarily restrung. [B] Also a silver bracelet, 3 coils of plain wire.
18954	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads; small ribbed gold balls; carnelian balls; one flat date-shaped paste.
18960A	(none)	(none)	(none)	(A) Beads: small gold balls, small carnelian balls, lapis diamonds, crystal rings, paste balls, these restrung as far as possible in original order. There were also small silver balls too perised for stringing. (B) Gold earring, small lunate type (the silver part has perished).
19026A	35-1-99A	(none)	(none)	[A] Beads: a mixed lot: 1 gold double conoid; 2 lapis ditto; 2 carnelian barrels; smaller paste double conoids; paste and lapis rings or small balls. [B.1-.2] Also two silver earrings.
19028	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: small paste lentoids.
19030	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: carnelian tubes and date-shaped; 1 lapis double conid; small carnelian rings; paste balls and some silver.
19039	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: carnelian cylinders and one double conoid, ball and rings; paste tube and balls, silver balls, etc.
19044	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: carnelian date-shaped (4) and very small tubes and rings of paste and lapis(?)
19047	35-1-92	(none)	(none)	Beads: carnelian large date-shaped (broken) and rings; steatite barrel; agate tubular; small paste tubes and date-shaped; and 3 frog amulets, steatite. (22 in all).
19054	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: carnelian rings and truncated triangles and one diamond: lapis diamonds and balls: paste long date-shaped.
19056	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: carnelian balls and long dated-shaped and cylindrical; lapis ovals and cylinders; shell date-shaped; jasper date-shaped and paste ditto, and paste rings; steatite frog amulets.
19076	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings, date-shaped and tubular; paste date-shaped(1); lapis double conoid, barrel and tube; and small paste rings; 2 lapis frog amulets.
19099	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Paste date-shaped, small.
19116	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis double conoids. Paste double conoids.
19240	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. One carnelian tube, one crystal pear pendant, small paste ringed tubes, lapis ovals.
19247	(none)	1935,0112.80	(none)	Beads. 1 shell tube, and 2 oval shell frontlets; diamond beads of lapis, mother-of-pearl, paste and limestone, paste balls, small shell rings, quartzite rhomboid and square paste spacers.
19250	35-1-91	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis barrels, carnelian rings, lapis cylinder, long paste date-shaped, quartzite flattened hexagonal.
19254	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Very small paste rings and oblong spacers for 3 ranks of beads (see field notes).
19256	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings, black steatite rings (large), shell and black steatite tubes(large), calcite button, very small shell (or paste) rings.
19316	(none)	(none)	(none)	1) grey green paste cylinders. 2) carnelian cylinders.
19574	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Shell cylinder with geometric pattern engraved and inlaid lapis dots : minute shell and paste rings, small carnelian and lapis balls and rings.
20035.1	(none)	(none)	(none)	[.1-.2] Beads. Small carnelian and lapis short cylinders, paste rings, and one flat oval carnelian.