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)
18125	(none)	(none)	B18485	Vase of glass paste. Greenish grey surface (black in section) with combed design roughly applied in opaque white glass; this is merely squeezed to the surface (by the cake-icing technique) and not incorporated in the body of the vase: it is the last degeneration of the real Phoenician glass but may be itself Phoenician. Part of rim missing.
9930	(none)	(none)	B17589	Beads. Very small. Rings of lapis, white paste and silver.
9629	(none)	(none)	B16930	Beads Silver, carnelian, lapis, copper and paste: original order noted in Field Notes: forming a separate necklace.
8056A	(none)	(none)	B16882	Cylinder seals of white shell. All in very bad condition. A: 4 animals, the centre two heraldically crossed, and a tree? or man? B: unrecognisable. C: unrecognisable.
7507	(none)	(none)	B16826	12 duck beads. White paste. All pierced doubly. One fragmentary. [drawing 1:1]
7564B	(none)	(none)	B16796	[A-B] Two necklaces. Carnelian, frit, paste. Found loose in soil and arbitrarily re-strung. Both similar in type. Ribbed frit ring beads predominate. No mention of these beads in field notes (or in written account of site).
8335	(none)	(none)	B16764	Pendant of blue paste (imitation lapis) a flat dish with slight protuberances. Where the 2 holes come. [drawing] 1:1
998	(none)	(none)	B15393	Clay Vase. Very white paste, probably once glazed, but all surface gone. Cf P.75 [drawing]
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.
81	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Paste. Poor condition. Simple criss-cross design. [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.
155	(none)	1923,1110.183	(none)	Beads, string of found loose in soil together and re-strung. Large yellow paste and light carnelian, 13 in all.
180	(none)	1923,1110.184	(none)	Beads. Large white facetted spheroids, glass paste, opaque: 10 in all.
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.
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.
1700	(none)	(none)	(none)	Glass paste fragments. Blue and yellow bands.
2502	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Inscribed. Glass paste. Bluish white. Broken. Fragments missing. Two lines nearly illegible: ( )-bi-a; ( ) -il. Figures worn, indistinct. Neo-Babylon - Persian Period.
2790	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lapis-lazuli paste. Fragment. Sketch. [drawing 1:1]
2915	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Paste - About BC 700 [drawing]
6108	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bead necklace. Paste.
6615A	(none)	(none)	(none)	14 paste beads.
6795	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis lazuli, gold and paste.
6840	(none)	(none)	(none)	Collection of beads. Paste, lapis lazuli, agate and one crystal 70 in number, all small.
6843	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White paste. Sacred tree and gazelle. B.
7002	(none)	(none)	(none)	Collection of beads. Small paste and carnelian also bronze fragments.