Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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 ...
Tjehenet is distinct from the crystalline pigment Egyptian blue, [3] for which it has sometimes incorrectly been used as a synonym. [2] It is not faience in the usual sense of tin-glazed pottery, and is different from the enormous range of clay-based Ancient Egyptian pottery, from which utilitarian vessels were
The ancient Egyptian Water-jugs-in-stand hieroglyph, is Gardiner sign listed no. W17, W18, within the Gardiner signs for vessels of stone and earthenware. The hieroglyph is used as an ideogram in (kh)nt-(ḫnt), for 'a stand (for vases)'. It is also used phonetically for (ḫnt). [1]
Imiut fetish – a religious object used in funerary rites; a stuffed, headless animal skin, often of a feline or bull, tied by the tail to a pole, terminating in a lotus bud and inserted into a stand; Microlith – ancient Egyptian stone flakes; Menat – an amulet worn around the neck. Also a musical instrument, a metal rattle (see also: sistrum)
Many of the Letters to the Dead have unknown provenance. [1] However, of those that do, are found in cemeteries and tombs. [1] One such example is the Qau Bowl, which was found at the head end of a burial chamber in Qau tomb 7695 along with two other uninscribed pottery vessels. [4]
The Sabu disk is an ancient Egyptian artifact from the First Dynasty, c. 3000 to 2800 BC. It was found in 1936 in the north of the Saqqara necropolis in mastaba S3111, the grave of the ancient Egyptian official Sabu after whom it is named. The function and meaning of the carefully crafted natural stone vessel are unclear.
The system of ancient Egyptian numerals was used in Ancient Egypt from around 3000 BC [1] until the early first millennium AD. It was a system of numeration based on multiples of ten, often rounded off to the higher power, written in hieroglyphs. The Egyptians had no concept of a positional notation such as the decimal system. [2]