Studies in Ancient Technology, Volume 6

Alexandria alum ancient Egypt apiculture ARISTOPHANES Asia Minor beads bees Beni Hassan blown glass blue bowls bronze called cane century A.D. certainly classical coloured copper corium crucible Cu₂O decoration depilation drachmae dyeing early Egyptian Egyptian glass Europe exported faience fire flasks fourth century frit furnace fused Gaul glass industry glass objects glass-making glass-workers glaze goats Greek hair Hellenistic Hence HERODOTUS hides and skins Hittite hives important invented Italy jars Jewish K₂O later leather lime material Melt mentioned Mesopotamia metal millefiori mirrors moulded Mozaic Museum Neolithic ninth century Number Oil tannage opaque panes papyrus parchment pelt period Phoenician PLINY pottery prehistoric probably produced refer Rekhmire Roman glass Rome salt sand sandals shape shoemaker shoes Sidonian soda stone STRABO sweet Syria tablets tanners tanning agents texts thongs thou shalt tomb trade transparent Type of object vegetable tanning wild honey РЬО