Egypt
Daily Photo - Old Kingdom red ware bowl
UC17588. Burnished red ware pottery bowl with incurve rim. Broken and repaired.
Dynasty 4? (2494BCE-2613BCE). Found at Meydum. Diameter 25.5 cms.
Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology,
University College London
With my thanks
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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....
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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:...
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Daily Photo - Decorated Rim Sherd From The Petrie
UC19110. Rim sherd from large red ware black fracture pottery jar with black and white running calf on blue background, painted. length 27.7 cms. Eighteenth Dynasty. Found at Luxor. Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College...
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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....
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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