The glass-workers imitated the emerald, jasper, lapis lazuli, and carnelian to such perfection that even now we are sometimes embarrassed to distinguish the real stones from the false.

The glass was pressed into moulds made of stone or limestone cut to the forms required, as beads, discs, rings, pendants, rods, and plaques covered with figures of men and animals, gods and goddesses.

Eyes and eyebrows for the faces of statues in stone or bronze were likewise made of glass, as also bracelets.

Glass was inserted into the hollows of incised hieroglyphs, and hieroglyphs were also cut out in glass.

In this manner, whole inscriptions were composed, and let into wood, stone, or metal.