Glass. In: Nein. Edna Dalali-Amos. HA-ESI 126 (2014)

Thirty-six fragments of glass vessels were discovered in the excavation at Nein, of which twenty-six were identified and dated to the Late Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad and Abbasid periods (Fig. 12:1–4). In addition, a multicolored glass bracelet (Fig. 12:5) and a glazed clay bead (Fig. 12:6), both from the Mamluk period, were found. The glass artifacts are important primarily because they include remains of industrial glass debris (Fig. 13), indicating that a glass industry existed in the immediate vicinity. The glassware includes plain vessels that are well-known and common alongside vessels decorated with a variety of techniques. Glass assemblages from the Early Islamic period are known from excavations in cities such as Tiberias, Bet Sheʽan, Hammat Gader, Caesarea and Ramla, but are not as widely known from rural regions in the Galilee. The glass vessels from this excavation are an example of an Early Islamic assemblage that comes from a rural settlement in the Lower Galilee.