Egyptian Core Glass Vessels from Sinai

Abstract

The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, has 976 fragments of Egyptian core glass vessels registered as from Petrie's expedition to Sinai in 1904-5. Then can be attributed more specifically to Serabit el-Khadem, and constitute the largest collection of Egyptian core glass found outside Egypt. This strengthens the parallels between Serabit el-Khadem and the recently published site of Timna, and the similarity of the two raises interesting points about the distribution of ‘high status’ glass vessels.