Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . s, for drinking-cups in the form of half-opened lotus buds, dishes, and plates. An immense piece of glazing is a sceptre5 feet high with a separatehead, made for Amen-hotep II., and now in theSouth Kensington appears that the Egyp-tians carried their prefer-ence for glazed pottery sofar, in some instances, asto cover the walls of theirpalaces, temples, and tombswith it. Glazed tiles forfixing on walls were used Fig. vase, glazed during the Thinite perio
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . s, for drinking-cups in the form of half-opened lotus buds, dishes, and plates. An immense piece of glazing is a sceptre5 feet high with a separatehead, made for Amen-hotep II., and now in theSouth Kensington appears that the Egyp-tians carried their prefer-ence for glazed pottery sofar, in some instances, asto cover the walls of theirpalaces, temples, and tombswith it. Glazed tiles forfixing on walls were used Fig. vase, glazed during the Thinite period,ware, baite period. ^ ^ As late as the nineteenthcentury one of the chambers of the step pyramid ofSaqqara still retained its mural decoration of glazedware (fig. 264). Up to three-quarters of its heightit was faced with green tiles, oblong in shape, slightlyconvex in front, but flat at the back (fig. 265) ; asquare projection pierced with a hole served to fixthe tiles at the back by means of a flexible strip ofwood passed horizontally through the whole three rows of tiles that frame the lower part of. GLAZED TILES. 303 the doorway are inscribed with the titles of thePharaoh Zeser of the Second or Third Dynasty. Thehieroglyphs are in blue, red, green, and yellow on atawny background. Of the Sixth Dynasty there isa yellow tile on which is the name and Ka nameof Pepi I., and there arc fragments of red and white
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