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)
17357	31-43-142	(none)	(none)	Beads. 1 Mother of pearl (?) ball. Glass paste bugles and double conoids. Carnelian double conoids, ring beads. 1 steatite double conoid. 1 pale lapis lazuli (?) bugle.
16213	31-43-146	(none)	(none)	Beads: A large number of rather irregularly shaped balls of banded green & yellow glaze, well preserved: larger ball beads of glass paste, dark blue with white veinings or plain blue: and a few smaller glass beads (clour gone) either bugles or..., these apprantly of yellow glaze; originally a very poor string. With these a scarab of pale blue glazed frit, fairly realistic. [drawing]
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.
16726	31-43-149	(none)	(none)	Beads: glass paste. Green and white, including one large lentoid with combed patter. Barrels and rings.
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.
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.
16682A	31-43-162	(none)	(none)	Beads. Glass paste, balls and ovoids.
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.
17007	31-43-637	(none)	(none)	Vase. Glass paste (?) Miniature. Type same as U.16388 q.v. to be drawn.
17355	31-43-71	(none)	(none)	Scarab. Glass paste. Yellowish. Tip missing. Two hieroglyphic (?) signs and a seated deity. RA?
17882.1	32-40-243	(none)	(none)	[.1-.2] Beads a small mixed collection of agate, carnelian, shell, marble, green quartzite (?), hematite and steatite and lapis . Paste = lentoids, rings, balls, barrels, bugles and one chisel shaped head.
17882.2	32-40-244	(none)	(none)	[.1-.2] Beads a small mixed collection of agate, carnelian, shell, marble, green quartzite (?), hematite and steatite and lapis . Paste = lentoids, rings, balls, barrels, bugles and one chisel shaped head.
17905	32-40-246	(none)	(none)	Beads. 2 carnelian bugles; 1 carnelian ball; 1 flat ovoid chalcedony; 1 lentoid marbles; 1 paste ball.
(none)	32-40-304	(none)	(none)	[Unknown]
(none)	32-40-335	(none)	(none)	Unknown
(none)	32-40-336	(none)	(none)	Unknown
(none)	32-40-339	(none)	(none)	Unknown
18171	32-40-343	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Clay, baked, convex sides. Tree, ladder and rosettes. Very lightly scratched design.
18485	33-35-157	(none)	(none)	Beads. Very small blue paste balls.
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.
19250	35-1-91	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis barrels, carnelian rings, lapis cylinder, long paste date-shaped, quartzite flattened hexagonal.
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).
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.