Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . stars, and flowers, either single or in abouquet. One of the smallest represents an Apisbull, black and white, walking ; the work is sodelicate that it can well bear examination with amicroscope. Most of these objects are not anteriorto the first Saite dynasty ; but excavations atThebes and at Tell el xAmarna have proved thatas early as the eighteenth century the taste forcoloured glass had arisen, and in consequence it wascommonly manufactured in Egypt. At Deir elBahari, i
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . stars, and flowers, either single or in abouquet. One of the smallest represents an Apisbull, black and white, walking ; the work is sodelicate that it can well bear examination with amicroscope. Most of these objects are not anteriorto the first Saite dynasty ; but excavations atThebes and at Tell el xAmarna have proved thatas early as the eighteenth century the taste forcoloured glass had arisen, and in consequence it wascommonly manufactured in Egypt. At Deir elBahari, in the Valley of the Kings, at Gurnet Murraiand at Sheikh abd el Gurneh not only have amuletsbeen found intended for the use of the dead, such ascolumns, hearts, mystic eyes, hippopotami standingon their hind legs, and pairs of ducks, in pottery ofmixed colours, blue, red and yellow, but also vasesof a type one has been accustomed to consider asPhoenician or Cypriote workmanship. Here, for instance, is a small oenochoe of semi-opaque light blue glass (fig. 254) inscribed with the COLOURED GLASS AND ENAMELS. 297. of Thoth-mes III. name of Thothmes III., the ovals on the neck and thepahns on the body of the vase traced in again is a lenticular ampulla 3} inches inheight (fig. 255) in dark blue glass ofadmirable purity and intensity ; over thisis a bold, delicate pattern of fern-leavesin yellow. Two small handles of trans-parent light green are attached to theneck, and the rim is surrounded by ayellow fillet. An amphora of the sameheight is dark olive-green and semi-transparent (fig. 256) ; a band of blue pj^ 2i;4—and yellow chevrons confined within four Parti-colouredyellow lines surrounds the body of the beaming n^a^mesvase at the widest part. In the vaultof Deir el Bahari by the side of thePrincess Nesikhonsu there were goblets of similarworkmanship ; seven were of plain glass, light green,yellow, or blue, four in black spottedwith white, and one was coveredwith a
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