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  2. Ancient Egyptian pottery - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egyptian pottery includes all objects of fired clay from ancient Egypt. [1] First and foremost, ceramics served as household wares for the storage, preparation, transport, and consumption of food, drink, and raw materials. Such items include beer and wine mugs and water jugs, but also bread moulds, fire pits, lamps, and stands for ...

  3. Tell el-Yahudiyeh Ware - Wikipedia

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    Tell el-Yehudiyeh Ware is characterised by its distinctive mode of decoration, applied after slipping and burnishing, and created by repeatedly "pricking" the surface of the vessel with a small sharp object to create a large variety of geometric designs ('puncturing' according to some writers - not a completely accurate description of the process, as it appears to have been the potters ...

  4. Egyptian faience - Wikipedia

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    Egyptian faience is a sintered-quartz ceramic material from Ancient Egypt. The sintering process "covered [the material] with a true vitreous coating" as the quartz underwent vitrification , creating a bright lustre of various colours "usually in a transparent blue or green isotropic glass".

  5. List of museums of Egyptian antiquities - Wikipedia

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    Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts [1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo) British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts [2] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory) [3] [4]

  6. 2,600-year-old blocks of cheese found in pottery at pyramid ...

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    Archaeologists uncovered a collection of pottery vessels — one containing ancient cheese — at a site in Egypt. Researchers made the discovery as they began their sixth season of excavation ...

  7. Lotiform vessels (Metropolitan Museum of Art) - Wikipedia

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    Egyptian faience pottery (as opposed to modern faience) was made from fired earthenware colored with a glaze. The art style was popular in the Third Intermediate Period (c. 1069 BC – c. 664 BC) of Egyptian history. Blue-green, the most popular color used on the earthenware, was achieved through the use of a quartz and calcite lime-based glaze ...

  8. Holiday pottery sale offers handmade crafts from dozens of ...

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    Good Dirt's Holiday Pottery Sale is scheduled to take place at their 485 Macon Hwy. location on Saturday, Dec. 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and guests will be able to purchase work by 27 ...

  9. Black-topped pottery - Wikipedia

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    Black-topped red ware jar, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Black-topped pottery is a specialized type of Ancient Egyptian pottery that was found in Nubian archaeological sites, including Elephantine, an island on the Nile River, Nabta Playa in the Nubian Desert, and Kerma in present-day Sudan.