In Egypt and the rest of the Middle East in the 13th century B.C. , bronze was the heavy metal of power , and glass the rare commodity coveted by the powerful , who treasured glass jewelry , figurines and decorative vessels and exchanged them as prestige gifts on a par with semiprecious stones .
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