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On the different styles of Tottery found in
the glass in plates thin enough to give the play of colour seen in soap bubbles
and in Newton’s rings. Originally most of the glass was colourless or light
green; a very few specimens of blue glass with white spiral lines, and of colour-
less glass with blue bosses, having been also found. A lamp, with simple orna-
ments, or with an animal or bird raised in relief, is not uncommon in these
cemeteries, the maker’s name in the genitive case occasionally occurring on the
under surface—for example, EAVSTI, ChTPIACONOC. The common open lamp
formerly in use is found more frequently, but never in company with glass, inferior
pottery taking its place. In the age we have now reached, such common lamps
were only in use amongst the poor, as, indeed, they continue to be amongst their
descendants at this day. A chemical analysis of the glass, lately made by
Mr. John Thomson, son of Professor Thomson, of Glasgow, gives the following
constituents and their proportions :—
Silica
Alumina
Oxide of Iron .
Oxide of Manganese
Lime
Soda
Magnesia.
White Glass.
68-18
2-70
•82
•92
7-73
18-46
Slight trace.
Mr. Thomson remarks that the above analysis shows that other ancient
glasses, such as Egyptian and old Homan, were similar in chemical composition,
and that the ancients used the same materials and very nearly in the same
proportions as we do at the present day.
Besides glass, these cemeteries contain gold ornaments, chiefly ear and finger
rings, sometimes set with precious stones.
The ear does not appear to have been generally pierced to receive the ear-
rings, which were attached by being pressed against the ear-lobe so as to grasp
it; and, lest they should be lost by dropping off, they were sometimes attached
to each other by a slender chain passing behind the neck.
Erom a few of these tombs sarcophagi have been unearthed, and now and then
the tomb was built of solid masonry, and divided into three or five compartments
at either side and at the end, capable each of containing one body. Stone circular
columns, called stelae, from two to four feet in height, and from six to eight
inches in diameter, have also been met with in such tombs. Under the capital is
On the different styles of Tottery found in
the glass in plates thin enough to give the play of colour seen in soap bubbles
and in Newton’s rings. Originally most of the glass was colourless or light
green; a very few specimens of blue glass with white spiral lines, and of colour-
less glass with blue bosses, having been also found. A lamp, with simple orna-
ments, or with an animal or bird raised in relief, is not uncommon in these
cemeteries, the maker’s name in the genitive case occasionally occurring on the
under surface—for example, EAVSTI, ChTPIACONOC. The common open lamp
formerly in use is found more frequently, but never in company with glass, inferior
pottery taking its place. In the age we have now reached, such common lamps
were only in use amongst the poor, as, indeed, they continue to be amongst their
descendants at this day. A chemical analysis of the glass, lately made by
Mr. John Thomson, son of Professor Thomson, of Glasgow, gives the following
constituents and their proportions :—
Silica
Alumina
Oxide of Iron .
Oxide of Manganese
Lime
Soda
Magnesia.
White Glass.
68-18
2-70
•82
•92
7-73
18-46
Slight trace.
Mr. Thomson remarks that the above analysis shows that other ancient
glasses, such as Egyptian and old Homan, were similar in chemical composition,
and that the ancients used the same materials and very nearly in the same
proportions as we do at the present day.
Besides glass, these cemeteries contain gold ornaments, chiefly ear and finger
rings, sometimes set with precious stones.
The ear does not appear to have been generally pierced to receive the ear-
rings, which were attached by being pressed against the ear-lobe so as to grasp
it; and, lest they should be lost by dropping off, they were sometimes attached
to each other by a slender chain passing behind the neck.
Erom a few of these tombs sarcophagi have been unearthed, and now and then
the tomb was built of solid masonry, and divided into three or five compartments
at either side and at the end, capable each of containing one body. Stone circular
columns, called stelae, from two to four feet in height, and from six to eight
inches in diameter, have also been met with in such tombs. Under the capital is