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Late Bronze Age Glass Production at Qantir-Piramesses, Egypt

Published:2005-06-17 Issue:5729 Volume:308 Page:1756-1758
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Rehren Thilo¹²,Pusch Edgar B.¹²

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, UK.

2. Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Am Steine 1-2, D-31134, Hildesheim, Germany.

Abstract

It has been uncertain whether the glass produced during the Late Bronze Age (LBA) originated in Egypt or Mesopotamia. Here we present evidence for the production of glass from its raw materials in the eastern Nile Delta during the LBA. Glass was made in workshops that were separate from where the production of objects took place. The initial melting of the raw materials to semi-finished glass was done at temperatures of 900° to 950°C, followed by coloration and ingot production at 1000° to 1100°C.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Reference20 articles.

1. These artistic workshops have been found at Tell Brak Amarna and Malkata among other sites. Typical debris from secondary glass-working includes ingot fragments monochrome glass rods in a range of colors used for making core-formed vessels and malformed vessel fragments.

2. Excavations at Qantir first took place in 1929 by Mahmoud Hamza of the Egyptian Antiquities Service; since 1984 excavation has been done by E. B. Pusch as part of a joint Austrian-German mission on behalf of the Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim. The site is ancient Piramesses northern capital of Egypt under Ramesses II; the material discussed here dates mostly to around 1250 to 1200 B.C. The village of Qantir is in Faquz district province Sharkijah some 30 km north of its capital Zaggazig in the eastern Nile delta. See ( 3 ) (p. 130) and ( 17 ) (p. 127) for maps of excavation sites within Qantir-Piramesses.

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