Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . vide the flowers, and cylindricalvessels with a small hole at the base are among themost remarkable. Heavy dishes with deeply incisedpatterns are also found. The Theban tombs of the great period of conquest have provided us withsufficient pottery to fillmany museums, but un-fortunately it is of littleinterest. There are thesmall funerary or//i-/^rt(^//figures shaped by handout of a lump of bit of the potterypinched with the fingersformed the nose, while two dots and two s
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . vide the flowers, and cylindricalvessels with a small hole at the base are among themost remarkable. Heavy dishes with deeply incisedpatterns are also found. The Theban tombs of the great period of conquest have provided us withsufficient pottery to fillmany museums, but un-fortunately it is of littleinterest. There are thesmall funerary or//i-/^rt(^//figures shaped by handout of a lump of bit of the potterypinched with the fingersformed the nose, while two dots and two short stripsadded after the firing supply eyes and arms. Thebetter ones were shaped in terra-cotta moulds, manyof which have been found. They were generallymoulded in one piece, then carefully reworked, burnt*painted red, yellow, and white, and finally the hiero-glyphs were added either with the point or the of them are excellent in style and almost equalto those carved in limestone. The iisJiabti figures ofthe scribe Hori, preserved in the Cairo Museum,are about i6 inches high, and they show what the. Fig. 248.—Black incised potter}-,predynastic. t>OTTERY. 291
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