Abstract. The study analyzes a group of glassware preserved in the Coptic Museum, providing an artistic and archaeological look at these pieces. The study includes a detailed description of some vessels such as a plate, an ostrich egg-shaped ball, and a cup. The research will talk about Glass is defined in Arabic dictionaries as “a hard, easily breakable, transparent core,” and the origin of the word “glass” goes back to glassmakers and since ancient times, humans have discovered glass and used it to make tools and description of some of the glassware preserved in the Coptic Museum was presented, such as the plate, the ostrich egg-shaped ball, and the cup. We chose this topic A study of a group of glassware preserved in the Coptic Museum To clarify its many aspects that have been neglected by many studies, as we find that there are multiple studies that have referred to the subject in a brief manner, and some have completely ignored talking about it, and at the same time an attempt to fill one of the gaps related to the study of Coptic art. This study will also shed light on two pieces of glass that have not been studied before.
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