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 Primitive Gulieck: Mvcenian Art. as eighty pieces were picked up at Spata which had all been stamped in the same mould. They probably mark the site of an ancient workshop. If they knew how to produce blown glass, it was not until the end of the Mycenian period, and the new process does not appear to have been carried very far. Fragments of glass, apparently from drinking- cups, with a whitish or greenish ground, and black or yellow bands, have been excavated at Mycena:.' But slender tubes, found either isolated or as border to small I'n;. 49^.— Class halidk. plaques, could be made without the hollow cone of the glass manufacturer (Figs. 495, 496). Like the art of the potter, glass-making requires the inter- vention of fire ; but a much higher temperature is necessary to fuse sand than clay, which is only baked. This, no doubt, is the reason why glass objects made their appearance long after vases shaped by the hand, or even cast on the wheel. No glass has been found at Troy. But prodigious quantities of glass-pastes are found on spots where the art was practised, ^ SCHLIEMANN, Myccttie.