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ALEXANDRIA

EGYPT

the shoulders, in high relief, consisting
of a row of sunken dots and ovals surround-
ed by rhomboids. The motif with other,
unfortunately blurred elements, is unclear
[Fig. 2:2}.
The smallest quantitatively group of
bottles was made up of fragments with ap-
plied decoration. Such ornamentation in-
cludes green and opaque brownish-red trails,
and sporadically also painted spots of the

same color [Fig. 2:3-3}. Considering the
noticeable presence of semi-products of the
same brownish-red color in the Kom el-
Dikka assemblage, which is characteristic
of early Islamic glass production, it is quite
possible that vessels with this type of deco-
ration were produced at the site.15 Frag-
ments of trailed glass have been reported
from such places in Egypt as Fustat,16
Tebtynis17 and Raya.is


Fig. 2. Islamic glass bottles with mould-blown patterns (1-2) and applied ornaments (3-3)
(Drawing and inking R. Kucharczyk and M.. Momot)

15 Rodziewicz, op. cit., 239-243.
16 Scanlon and Pinder-Wilson, op. cit., 62-65, PI. 32h, 32i.
17 Foy, op. cit., 471-472, 484: 50-51, 54, 56-57, 61.
18 Shindo "Raya", op. cit., 183.

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