Egyptian faience is a sintered-quartz ceramic material from Ancient Egypt. The sintering process "covered [the material] with a true vitreous coating"...
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as faience, but the distinction is not usually maintained. Semi-vitreous stoneware may be glazed like faience. Egyptian faience is not really faience, or...
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"William", also known as "William the Hippo", is an Egyptian faience hippopotamus statuette from the Middle Kingdom, now in the collection of the Metropolitan...
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spanning from Prehistoric Egypt until the Christianization of Roman Egypt. It includes paintings, sculptures, drawings on papyrus, faience, jewelry, ivories,...
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Frit (section Relationships with glass and faience)
a total of US$ 1.67 billion. Egyptian blue – Pigment used in ancient Egypt Egyptian faience – Type of Ancient Egyptian sintered-quartz ceramic Islamic...
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production site. Egyptian blue is closely related to the other vitreous materials produced by the ancient Egyptians, namely glass and Egyptian faience, and it...
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boats, Egyptian faience and glass technology, new forms of literature, and the earliest known peace treaty, made with the Hittites. Ancient Egypt has left...
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Ptolemaic Kingdom (redirect from Egyptian Ptolemies)
Kingdom, sometimes used Egyptian iconography as it had been used previously, and sometimes adapted it. For example, the faience sistrum inscribed with...
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Ankh (redirect from Egyptian Cross)
found in several Egyptian words, including the terms for "mirror", "floral bouquet", and "life". The symbol often appeared in Egyptian art as a physical...
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Underglaze (section Ptolemaic faience)
china painting, blue and white pottery, tin-glazed pottery, maiolica, Egyptian faience, Delftware. In modern times a wider range of underglaze colours are...
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ancient Egypt Amarna art Ancient Egyptian pottery Egyptian faience Funerary art in Ancient Egypt Painting in Ancient Egypt Portraiture in Ancient Egypt Sculpture...
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Bes (category Egyptian gods)
the god Bes, blue Egyptian faience, between 1540 and 1076 BC, New Kingdom. Museo Egizio, Turin. Amulet of Bes; 1070–712 BC; faience; height: 3.7 cm; Metropolitan...
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Scarab (artifact) (category Egyptian amulets)
were generally either carved from stone, or molded from Egyptian faience, a type of Ancient Egyptian sintered-quartz ceramic. Once carved, they would typically...
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Cypriote Cylinder Seals. Egyptian cylinder seals. Predynastic Egyptian Naqada era tombs and graves (imported). Egyptian Faience; see Pepi I ext link. Hittite...
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lazuli (imported from Badakhshan in what is now Afghanistan), and Egyptian faience were used ornamentally, and the cosmetic palettes used for eye paint...
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Horus (redirect from Heru (Egyptian religion))
(/hɔːrəs/), also known as Hor (/hɔːr/), in Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably...
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cuisine - Egyptian diaspora - Egyptian faience - Egyptian Fourth Dynasty family tree - Egyptian hieroglyphs - Egyptian Islamic Jihad - Egyptian–Israeli...
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Ushabti (redirect from Egyptian shabtis)
terracotta, metal, glass and, most frequently, glazed earthenware (Egyptian faience). While ushabtis manufactured for the rich were often miniature works...
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Ancient art (section Egypt)
favored in Egyptian art for the previous 1700 years. After Akhenaton's death, however, Egyptian artists reverted to their old styles. Faience that was produced...
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Ancient Egyptian clothes refers to clothing worn in ancient Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period (prior to 3100 BC) to the collapse of the Ptolemaic...
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Land of Punt (category Geography of ancient Egypt)
at Gash Group sites, many Egyptian pottery vessels and Egyptian faience beads were found, indicating close contacts with Egypt. Found Red Sea shells demonstrate...
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Amulet (section Ancient Egypt)
most common material for such amulets was a kind of ceramic known as Egyptian faience or tjehenet, but amulets were also made of stone, metal, bone, wood...
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The Gayer-Anderson cat; British Museum Blue Egyptian faience cat figurine dated to 1981−1802 BC Ancient Egypt portal Cats portal Islam and cats Cultural...
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ingredient for making a distinct color called Egyptian blue, and also as the flux in Egyptian faience. It was used along with sand and lime in ceramic...
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Khepri (category Egyptian gods)
Khepri (Egyptian: ḫprj, also transliterated Khepera, Kheper, Khepra, Chepri) is a scarab-faced god in ancient Egyptian religion who represents the rising...
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Ramesses III prisoner tiles (category Ancient Egyptian pottery)
The Ramesses III prisoner tiles are a collection of Egyptian faience depicting prisoners of war, found in Ramesses III's palaces at Medinet Habu (adjacent...
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Dung beetle (section Ancient Egypt)
Egyptian religious and funerary art. Excavations of ancient Egyptian sites have yielded images of the scarab in bone, ivory, stone, Egyptian faience,...
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Ancient Egyptian History Archived 14 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine: from This Is Egypt | Information about Ancient Egyptian History Ancient Egyptian History...
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Multiple examples of monochrome artworks throughout history: an Ancient Egyptian faience statuette of Isis and Horus, 332–30 BC; a gold Tairona pendant, 10th–16th...
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trade with Egypt has been found by archaeologists—fine Egyptian faience cups are an example. Such trade occurred either directly with Egypt or through...
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