Faience appliqué with a bust of Dionysos
The use of faience, a material of Egyptian origin, for an object of Greek type and style exhibits an interesting combination of Greek and Egyptian workmanship that has been documented at Alexandria but is likely to have existed elsewhere as well. This piece, unlike the better known Ptolemaic faience oinochoai with relief decoration, does not appear to have belonged to a vessel and points to another use for faience appliqués in the Hellenistic period.
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