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 Ceramics. 30/ made of that material ; glass beads, sometimes round, sometimes flat, have also been found. 1 A glass cylinder or tube, of unknown Fig. 190.— Glass vase or bottle. Height 3^ inches. British Museum. use, was found by Layard at Kouyundjik ; it is covered with a decoration made up of lozenges with a concave surface (Fig. 191). Fig. 191. — Glass tube. Height 8| inches. British Museum. It is curious that no cylinders or cones of terra-cotta or glass have come down to us from the Assyro-Chaldaean period. Clay 1 Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies^ vol, i. p. 574.