I'm making an Ancient Egyptian menu and I need to draw out the beverages. Can I draw the wine in those fancy glasses, like the ones with the skinny necks, or did they not have glass?Did Ancient Egyptians have glass? As in clear glass like our glass (glasses to drink) READ DETAILS!!!!!?
They had glass but they did not know how to blow it and had to mould it.Did Ancient Egyptians have glass? As in clear glass like our glass (glasses to drink) READ DETAILS!!!!!?
Yes, they had glass in ancient Egypt, from about 1500 BC.
Glass was used for inlays, beads, and amulets, and was also used for making vessels. They were not made by blowing, which was introduced only in Roman times, but by core-forming. A core of mud and sand in the shape of the vessel interior was formed around a handling rod. The core would then be dipped into the viscous molten glass and evened out by rolling the whole on a flat stone. The finished vessel was allowed to cool slowly in an oven in a process known as annealing.
Glass might also be moulded. At its simplest this inovlved the making of plain glass forms, but it could also be much more complex, with sections of glass cane of different colours fused together in a mould to make multi-coloured vessels.
For much of the New Kingdom glass was a costly novelty material, probably under royal control, and given as gifts to favoured officials. In Ptolemaic times, Alexandria became a centre for glass craftsmanship, with the production of core-formed vessels.
The Egyptians mostly seem to have made very colourful objects out of glass, so they would probably not have had clear glasses of the kind we use nowadays. They did have glass goblets, but these would probably have been very costly items only used by royalty and nobility. Most people would probably drink out of pottery goblets.
No, they used metal or clay goblets. They weren't yet able to achieve the high temperatures required to pour molten glass.
egyptians ahd colored glass.
Carthaginians were teh ones that invented clear glass.
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