If any sculptor
decided to create a monument to the inventor of the glass-blowing tube, he
would be in great difficulty. How to portray this person? What people does he
belong to? In what centuries and in what country did he live?
Glassblowers or Blacksmiths? |
“Glassblowers
are buried here. This image was made in memory of their art, ” - the scientists
decided. This image began to be printed in books that told about the history of
glass. It migrated from one century to another, is found even in modern books.
But there were scientists who considered such an explanation a mistake.
Murano Glass |
- How so? - they
objected. - To blow out of glass, it is necessary to make it liquid. And for
this, you need a temperature of one and a half thousand degrees. The Egyptians
did not know how to get such a high temperature. And blowing something out of a
thick glass dough is also impossible, like blowing it out of honey.
Finally, one
scientist managed to figure this out. He found similar images in other tombs.
There were inscriptions, from which it became clear that half-naked people with
long tubes are really not glassblowers, but blacksmiths. They make a fire to
heat a piece of iron before forging. The content of the Beni Hassan drawing was
explained. And the inventor of the glass-blowing tube was not found.