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Faience bowl

Faience bowl. Culture: Ptolemaic. Dimensions: Diam.: 8 11/16 in. (22 cm). Date: 332-30 B.C.. This bowl, preserved intact, is a fine example of Egyptian faience ware. The Egyptians mastered the production of this luxury ware as early as the late Predynastic period (late fourth millennium B.C.). Faience continued to be used for both sacred and secular objects into Hellenistic and Roman times.
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Title:
Faience bowl
Caption:
Faience bowl. Culture: Ptolemaic. Dimensions: Diam.: 8 11/16 in. (22 cm). Date: 332-30 B.C.. This bowl, preserved intact, is a fine example of Egyptian faience ware. The Egyptians mastered the production of this luxury ware as early as the late Predynastic period (late fourth millennium B.C.). Faience continued to be used for both sacred and secular objects into Hellenistic and Roman times.
Technique/material:
FAIENCE
Period:
Hellenistic
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Image size:
3181 x 3071 px | 27.9 MB
Print size:
26.9 x 26.0 cm | 10.6 x 10.2 in (300 dpi)
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