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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
Period: Hellenistic
Date: 332–30 BCE
Culture: Ptolemaic
Medium: Faience
Dimensions: Diam.: 8 11/16 in. (22 cm)
Classification: Miscellaneous-Faience
Credit Line: Gift of Thomas Colville, 2016
Object Number: 2016.496.2
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