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12 - Three Millennia of Egyptian Glassmaking

from Part IV - Glass Technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Thilo Rehren  and
Daniela Rosenow
Edited by
C. N. Duckworth ,
A. Cuénod  and
D. J. Mattingly
C. N. Duckworth
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
A. Cuénod
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
D. J. Mattingly
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
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This chapter covers nearly three millennia of glassmaking in Egypt, from the beginning of the Late Bronze Age at around 1500 BC up to the beginning of the second millennium AD. This period saw several major changes in the material composition as well as the social meaning of glass, illustrated in our overview by case studies done on glass from Egypt. For much of the Late Bronze Age, and again during the first millennium AD, there is a very significant sea-borne flow of glass from Egypt to the north, providing much of Europe with glass. In contrast, we argue that there is relatively little material interaction and exchange of glass with the Levant to the east, a region which had its own large glass production centres for much of this period. We hope that by looking west and south we can see whether there was a stronger integration of Egypt and its glass industry as part of a wider land-based exchange network. For convenience, the chapter covers the evidence separately for primary glass making and for glass use, respectively, and within these two sections we structure it by broad blocks of time.

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Late Bronze AgeglassEgyptMediterraneanEuropeLevantglassmakingchemical composition
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Mobile Technologies in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond , pp. 423 - 450
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