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Egyptian Faience Votive Cup, hieroglyphic inscriptions browse these categories for related items... All Items: Egyptian: New Kingdom: Pre AD 1000: item #798789 Please refer to our stock #G.19A.101 when inquiring.
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| Glazed faience composition vessel, light-green in color, narrow cylindrical body tapering to a conical footed form, with hieroglyphic inscriptions in dark blue Culture - Period : Cannanit Late Bronze Age 1200 - 1550 BC - Egyptian New Kingdom 19th-20th Dynasty, 1307-1070 B.C Found in Samaria { Biblical Shomron } Height:1.80 " (4.8cm) Condition :Intact ,Very Good Condition Price Including : 1- Worldwide Shipping -Priority Mail 2- Custom lucite stand. 3- Export Approval from Israel Antiquities Authority . 4- Certificate of authenticity ********** Votive Cup: Vessels used for a variety of ritual functions and offerings, generally used for oils and other substances ********** Egyptian faience is a non-clay ceramic displaying surface vitrification which creates a bright blue-green luster. It is called 'Egyptian faience' to distinguish it from Faience which refers to the ambiguous term frit and a type of pottery now know as majolica: a tin glazed ware originally produced in Faenza in northern Italy. Egyptian faience, both locally produced and exported from Egypt, occurs widely in the ancient world, and is well known from Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean and in northern Europe as far away as Scotland | |||||
