Glass
- Created by: Ruthfeath
- Created on: 29-05-18 15:05
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- Glass
- Key Examples
- Kas - 175 raw glass ingots of cylindrical shape
- These ingots match the glass melting crucibles found at Amarna and Pi-Ramesses in Egypt
- Glass ornaments with deer carvings, c1400BC
- Necklace of blue cast glass beads & their gold covers, c1400BC
- Glass tiles with human faces in profile, c1400BC
- Kas - 175 raw glass ingots of cylindrical shape
- Problems
- Not possible to discern if trade in glass was occurring directly between glass producing regions & foreign customers
- Purpose of materials & goods
- Glass was being consumed by elites of Eastern Mediteranean & Western Asia
- Raw glass ingots were exported
- Local distribution through state control to state sponsored artisans
- Decoration
- Deer
- Faces
- Origins, trade & production
- Mycenaean glass beads made from glass from Egypt & Babylon
- The fact that the beads are stylistically Mycenaean would imply an import of raw glass
- Mycenaean craftsmen would have had to import glass - didn't have necessary resources for production
- Produced in Egypt & Mesopotamia with workshops possibly specialising in colour
- Mycenaean glass beads made from glass from Egypt & Babylon
- Key Examples
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