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Derivation of ancient Egyptian faience core and glaze materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Denys A. Stocks
Denys A. Stocks*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, England
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An essential ingredient of the lovely blues in ancient Egyptian materials — faience, glazes, frits — is copper. How did the knowledge of that copper use arise? There is a telling congruence with Egyptian techniques in drilling stone artefacts, and the characteristics of the powder drilled out as waste.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 271 , March 1997 , pp. 179 - 182
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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