ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the peculiarities of Elamite production using examples from the sites of Susa, Choga Zanbil, Haft Tepe and Anshan, integrated into the wider context of vitreous material industry in the Near East and it outlines the terminology unanimously accepted to describe the different types of materials. Despite the turbulent history of the Elamite kingdom in the first half of the first millennium BC, production of objects in glass materials, mainly faience and glazed terracotta, continued. Glazed terracotta is used from the second half of the second millennium in Elam, as in Mesopotamia, to manufacture different categories of ceremonial furniture: architectural designs, ceremonial vessels, monumental sculpture and so on. Frit, which is confused with faience, is made of the same ingredients but is not covered with glaze. Glazed terracotta is another of the major innovations of the Middle Elamite period, appearing once again under the leadership of Untash-Napirisha at Choga Zanbil.
