Faience tiles
- Accession Number
- EC208
- Current Location
- In storage
- Object Type
- Architecture, Architectural decoration, Tile
- Period
- New Kingdom
- Dynasty
- Eighteenth Dynasty
- Material
- Faience
- Provenance
- Egypt, Amarna
- Number of Elements
- 27
Licensing details
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- Description
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Twenty-seven ceramic and faience tiles. Blue (faience) and red (ceramic), possibly from Amarna. Similar items are described in Kemp, B. and Stevens, A. 2010 'Busy Lives at Amarna: Excavations in the Main City (Grid 12 and the House of Ranefer, N49.18) Volume II: The Objects' pp255-269, fig 19.5 and plate 19.3.
- Previous Owner
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Assumed long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 25 Jun 2020