Egypt
- Photo For Today - Faience Bead Dress (petrie Museum)
Museum number - UC17743 Part of network dress of blue and black faience beads mostly cylinder and two blue and black faience breast 'caps', also quantity loose beads, and two strings of Mitra beads, probably part of the original dress. Dynasty...
- Daily Photo - Pear-shaped Macehead, Hierakonpolis
UC14894 Pear-shaped macehead, quartz (published as 'alabaster'); 10 shallow grooves right-handed from bottom to top; only partly bored from either end. Period - Early Dynastic Period (2750BCE-3100BCE) Found at - Hierakonpolis Material - quartz...
- Daily Photo - Faience Pig Figurine
UC11007. Faience? pig, faded. Early Dynastic Period (2750BCE-3100BCE). Found at Hierakonpolis ? Measurements - length 7 cms height 3.3 cms width 2.8 cms Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...
- Daily Photo - Mycenean Vase At Gurob
UC16631. Mycenean IIIB1 stirrup vase of pottery, cream with broad black and thin brown circular line decoration - piece of spout missing. Black patch from burning. Late Dynasty 18 (1295BCE-1550BCE). Found at Gurob. Height 8.6 cms max diameter 11.1 cms....
- Daily Photo - Faience At The Petrie
The last of the photographs on this page, one of the clay moulds used to form this type of ornament, is one of the reasons that I like the Petrie so much. As well as all the spectaucular, pretty and unusual items that the Egyptian cultures produced, the...
Egypt
Daily(ish) Photo - Early ceramics from the Petrie
UC10774. Black-topped pot. Type B86M,with pot mark. Height 11.3 ins, width 9.8 ins. Found at El Amrah. Predynastic Period (3100BCE-5300BCE)
UC10702. Decorated pot, type D67B. Height 17.5 ins diameter 22.0 ins.
(If you look up this vessel from the above link you will see that it is marked down as 18th Dynasty - this is an error. It is Naqada II).
(If you look up this vessel from the above link you will see that it is marked down as 18th Dynasty - this is an error. It is Naqada II).
UC10698. Fancy pot, type F20d; stand with red coating but unpolished rim damage. Diameter 14.5 ins height 10.0 ins. Naqada I (3500BCE-4000BCE)
UC10736. Pottery horn with cow's head on top disc beads as eyes (one lost); bottom damaged. L 7 ins diameter 2.8 ins Naqada II (3200BCE-3500BCE) Found at Gerzeh
UC13256. Faience vase with 12 horizontal ribs and zig-zag above (just below rim) with 4 holes for tying on lid, faded from blue to white; edge of base chipped faience height 2 3/4 ins Max diameter 2 1/2 ins. Early Dynastic Period (2750BCE-3100BCE)
Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology,
University College London
With my thanks
University College London
With my thanks
- Photo For Today - Faience Bead Dress (petrie Museum)
Museum number - UC17743 Part of network dress of blue and black faience beads mostly cylinder and two blue and black faience breast 'caps', also quantity loose beads, and two strings of Mitra beads, probably part of the original dress. Dynasty...
- Daily Photo - Pear-shaped Macehead, Hierakonpolis
UC14894 Pear-shaped macehead, quartz (published as 'alabaster'); 10 shallow grooves right-handed from bottom to top; only partly bored from either end. Period - Early Dynastic Period (2750BCE-3100BCE) Found at - Hierakonpolis Material - quartz...
- Daily Photo - Faience Pig Figurine
UC11007. Faience? pig, faded. Early Dynastic Period (2750BCE-3100BCE). Found at Hierakonpolis ? Measurements - length 7 cms height 3.3 cms width 2.8 cms Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...
- Daily Photo - Mycenean Vase At Gurob
UC16631. Mycenean IIIB1 stirrup vase of pottery, cream with broad black and thin brown circular line decoration - piece of spout missing. Black patch from burning. Late Dynasty 18 (1295BCE-1550BCE). Found at Gurob. Height 8.6 cms max diameter 11.1 cms....
- Daily Photo - Faience At The Petrie
The last of the photographs on this page, one of the clay moulds used to form this type of ornament, is one of the reasons that I like the Petrie so much. As well as all the spectaucular, pretty and unusual items that the Egyptian cultures produced, the...