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Glass. 413 Glass. We have more than once alluded to glass-pastes, pierced with holes, so as to admit of being made into bracelets and neck- laces, now shaped as beads and discs (Fig. 493), now adorned with incised forms to serve as seals, now used as inlays either for furniture (Figs. 241, 494) or personal ornaments, or inserted Fig. 493. — Glass-paste. Actual size. in the stone friezes of royal buildings (PI. XIII. i). Several representative specimens have already been figured by us (Figs. 240, 241, 335, 336, 382 ; tail-pieces of Chapters IV., V., VI., VIII., IX., X., XL, XII.). The term "glass" used here is some- what misleading, and requires a word of explanation, lest the reader should form a wrong conception in regard to it. The material in question is not colourless glass like ours ; nor is it glass which, though artificially tinged, retains its transparency. The objects designated by this name consist of a semi-pellucid paste, always coloured white or blue. We have published several examples of the stone moulds in which the material was impressed.^ On such spots where these pastes are met with, specimens of similar ornaments may be counted by the hundred. As many ^ History of Art ; Schliemann, Mycence,