Egypt
- 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 - Predynastic Figurine From The Petrie
UC15155. Pottery figure of beak-faced woman wearing long white dress from above breasts to ankels-red slip portraying bare flesh- arms raised (but both missing) -feet missing. Broken at waist and repaired. 16.5cms. Naqada I (3500BCE-4000BCE). Copyright:...
- 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...
- Daily Photo - Ostraca From The Petrie
UC31955. Hieratic ostracon, limestone. 7 columns of funerary text on recto and sketch of boat with man before statue in shrine on verso. New Kingdom. UC1585. Fragment of limestone; painted with sketch of a monkey. Late Eighteenth Dynasty, found at...
- Daily Photo - Basketry At The Petrie Museum
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, one of the most fascinating museums in London (and one which seems to be very little known even amongst real Egyptology enthusiasts) has an online database of its complete collection. Here are some examples of...
Egypt
Daily Photo - 18th Dynasty ceramics from the Petrie
UC19122. Redware pottery jar painted with blue bands and dark lines on cream background, cracked. 29cms. Eighteenth Dynasty. Medinet El-Faiyum.
UC19145. Brown ware cream slip pottery jug with dark painted pattern, type 79K. 17.5cms. Eighteenth Dynasty. Found at Riqqeh?
UC19170. Drab ware pottery jug with cream slip burnished dark brown decoration. 23cms. Eighteenth Dynasty. Found at Meidum.
UC15942. Body of pink ware pot with 2 breasts. Painted blue and brown over white slip. 18.5cms. Eighteenth Dynasty.
UC19163. Redware pottery hes-vase, cream slip all over, black and red pattern on upper part, rim and base damaged. 30.5cms. Eighteenth Dynasty. Found at Meidum.
- 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 - Predynastic Figurine From The Petrie
UC15155. Pottery figure of beak-faced woman wearing long white dress from above breasts to ankels-red slip portraying bare flesh- arms raised (but both missing) -feet missing. Broken at waist and repaired. 16.5cms. Naqada I (3500BCE-4000BCE). Copyright:...
- 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...
- Daily Photo - Ostraca From The Petrie
UC31955. Hieratic ostracon, limestone. 7 columns of funerary text on recto and sketch of boat with man before statue in shrine on verso. New Kingdom. UC1585. Fragment of limestone; painted with sketch of a monkey. Late Eighteenth Dynasty, found at...
- Daily Photo - Basketry At The Petrie Museum
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, one of the most fascinating museums in London (and one which seems to be very little known even amongst real Egyptology enthusiasts) has an online database of its complete collection. Here are some examples of...