Ballas
a spherical aggregate of small diamond crystals used for drilling and for various industrial purposes.
historical examples
this cannot be distinguished from certain fragments obtained in the neolithic cemetery at ballas.
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the crucial case at ballas was the secondary burial of a libyan found in one of a group of stairway mastabas.
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these cists were found at ballas both in “stairway” tombs and in open neolithic graves.
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a rough example of no. 44 was found at ballas, used anciently as a lamp with floating wick.
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the sides of one neolithic tomb at ballas were lined with bars of this kind.
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