. Glass. Itis indeed these little vases that are the most characteristicproduct of the first period of glass-making. It is not too much to say that the little we know of theprocesses of these early Egyptian glass-makers is derivedfrom notices on the subject scattered through the memoirsin which Dr. Flinders Petrie has described the results ofhis excavations, more especially from the report issued in1894, on his discoveries at Tell-el-Amarna. In the intro-duction to the catalogue of the Egyptian Exhibition heldat the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1895, Dr. Petrie hassummed up our knowledge on th
. Glass. Itis indeed these little vases that are the most characteristicproduct of the first period of glass-making. It is not too much to say that the little we know of theprocesses of these early Egyptian glass-makers is derivedfrom notices on the subject scattered through the memoirsin which Dr. Flinders Petrie has described the results ofhis excavations, more especially from the report issued in1894, on his discoveries at Tell-el-Amarna. In the intro-duction to the catalogue of the Egyptian Exhibition heldat the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1895, Dr. Petrie hassummed up our knowledge on this subject. I will quotethe description of the method by which, according tohim, these alabastra were made. A metal rod of the size of the intended interior of theneck, and rather conical, was coated at the end with a ballof sand held together by cloth and string. This was ^ In most cases, I think, the comparatively hard arragonite, the carbonate, andnot the sulphate of lime that we know by that
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