Phoenician glass: Did you mean...?

A Phoenician-Punic gold pectoral, 8th-7th Century BCE. From the El Carambolo Treasure, Seville. (National Archaeological Museum, Madrid)

This is a head of woman wearing an Egyptian wig. The hole at the top is a hole for suspension. Part of a baked clay votive figure. The Canaanite traditions of terracotta figurine manufacturer were continued by the Phoenicians, both at home...

An amphoriskos is a small amphora, typically less than 4 inches in height. Polychrome and sand-core formed. The decoration and the technique used are very similar to Phoenician glass, reflecting the trade and cultural exchanges across the...

A Roman glass vase dating from the 1st to 3rd century CE. Glass vessels were often decorated so as to imitate more expensive metalware. (Naxos Archaeological Museum, Greece).

A detail of the neck and handle of a Roman glass bottle (1st - 3rd century CE). The handle shows the common technique of adding handles separately and the folding over of the glass at the ends due to the glassmaker's lack of cutting shears...

Core-forming is one of the earliest glass-making techniques. The body of the vessel was shaped around a core. Colored trails of glass were wound around it, and the rim and handles added. the vessel was then cooled and the core removed. Mediterranean...

A clear glass dish from Pompeii. 1st century CE. (Photo taken at the National Maritime Museum, Sydney Australia) According to Pliny, high value was placed on colourless, transparent glass - basically that which mimicked rock crystal.

A Roman glass drinking cup, 1st - 3rd century CE. The shape and carved horizontal handles are typical of glass drinking cups of this period and their use was widespread throughout the Empire, even by those of more modest means. (Naxos Archaeological...

Roman blue-glass cinerary urn, from Luguvalium (Botchergate, Carlisle), 1st century CE. Carlisle Cathedral. Burning the body after death and keeping the bones and ashes in the cineraria (funerary urns) was a deeply rooted cultural tradition...

Baal (also given as Ba'al) is a Canaanite-Phoenician god of fertility and weather, specifically rainstorms. The name was also used as a title, however, meaning "Lord" and was applied to a number of different deities throughout the ancient...