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One of the main challenges on the creation of glass pieces in casting, is to obtain a surface of the glass as clean as possible, without adhering residues, or devitrification. In glass Sculptures where the surface is not flat, the polishing process becomes very complicated, and …

There is very little known about ancient glass-making practice from the Late Bronze Age (LBA), despite numerous fragments of glass being discovered from LBA archaeological sites, both in Egypt and Mesopotamia. However, for more than 2000 years, two compositional groups of soda-l…