History of Chemistry in Ancient and Medieval India, Incorporating the History of Hindu Chemistry by Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray c15.s1.47

c15.s1.47

At Taxila many pottery specimens of the early age have recently been unearthed. They furnish some ideas about the types of pottery prevalent during the Saka-Parthian and Kushan period (Fig. 18). The findings here consist of a white paste, glass beads and terracotta objects. Majority of the glass beads are of opaque glass and have colours ranging from dark yellow to orange and copper-red. They are disc-like, cylindrical or circular in shape. Some of the beads are also translucent and are of different colours like white, green, blue, purple, white iridescent, etc. Glass bangles, green or blue in colour, generally opaque and rarely transparent, have also been found. Some of these show a chalky coating from the devitrefication of the glass due to atmosphere and subsoil conditions.