Elementi di arredi sacri e intarsi in vetro nelle collezioni del Museo Egizio di Firenze

Object of the paper are two wooden furniture elements and a group of glass inlays from the Collections of the Egyptian Museum in Florence. Many of these inlays decorated small wooden shrines or pieces of temple furniture; shrines panels inlaid with colored glass elements are attested from the late sixth century B.C. onward. Monochromatic or mosaic glass inlay might be placed in separate cells or be contiguously adhered on a common background. Almost all the inlays, now divorced from their original settings, are in monochrome opaque glass in red, light turquoise-blue, light blue, blue, green and black, just one is in mosaic glass.