Egypt
- Online Article - Egyptian Faience
Article Study Introduction From the inception of faience in the archaeological record of Ancient Egypt, the elected colors of the glazes varied within an array of blue-green hues. Glazed in these colours, faience was perceived as substitute for blue-green...
- 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 - String Of Faience Beads
UC35614 String of faience beads: one short cylinder, nine hemispherical (semi-cone), one hundred and twenty eight spheroids (balls); all with large perforations, some retain blue-green glaze, some are blackened, some eroded. Period - Dynasty 1 (2890BCE-3100BCE)...
- Daily Photo - String Of Beads
Mixed string of beads: blue glass scaraboid, three blue-green glass barrels, four blue-green faience barrels, one larger faience barrel, two carnelian barrels, two large carnelian barrels, 21 small carnelian spheroids, one blus glass spheroid, five blue-green...
- Daily Photo - Serekh Bracelet
UC25976 Blue glazed faience serekh bracelet composed of two end pieces with fastening holes and thirteen hawks on serekhs, also twenty-four spacer beads Period - Dynasty 1 (2890BCE-3100BCE) Found at - Gizeh Measurements - length 20.0 cms width 2.2 cms...
Egypt
Daily Photo: Jewellery from the Petrie
UC1006. Complete blue faience ring. Openwork bezel: udjat-eye. Late Eighteenth Century. Found at Amarna.
UC1040. Yellow faience ring bezel, with inlaid blue and red. cf UC 1871. Late 18th Dynasty. Found at Amarna.
UC10803. String of beads; shell glazed composition green black porphyry pendant. Naqada I period. Possibly from Hu.
UC11264. Ring, black obsidian, broken in half, inscribed: wsrt.sn ir.n.f m
UC11535. Hollow gold bead inscribed two cartouched between uraei.Sebekhotep II, found at Harageh.
Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology,
University College London
With my thanks
Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology,
University College London
With my thanks
- Online Article - Egyptian Faience
Article Study Introduction From the inception of faience in the archaeological record of Ancient Egypt, the elected colors of the glazes varied within an array of blue-green hues. Glazed in these colours, faience was perceived as substitute for blue-green...
- 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 - String Of Faience Beads
UC35614 String of faience beads: one short cylinder, nine hemispherical (semi-cone), one hundred and twenty eight spheroids (balls); all with large perforations, some retain blue-green glaze, some are blackened, some eroded. Period - Dynasty 1 (2890BCE-3100BCE)...
- Daily Photo - String Of Beads
Mixed string of beads: blue glass scaraboid, three blue-green glass barrels, four blue-green faience barrels, one larger faience barrel, two carnelian barrels, two large carnelian barrels, 21 small carnelian spheroids, one blus glass spheroid, five blue-green...
- Daily Photo - Serekh Bracelet
UC25976 Blue glazed faience serekh bracelet composed of two end pieces with fastening holes and thirteen hawks on serekhs, also twenty-four spacer beads Period - Dynasty 1 (2890BCE-3100BCE) Found at - Gizeh Measurements - length 20.0 cms width 2.2 cms...