Faience tiles
- Accession Number
- EC202
- Current Location
- In storage
- Object Type
- Architecture, Architectural decoration, Tile
- Period
- New Kingdom
- Dynasty
- Eighteenth Dynasty
- Material
- Faience
- Provenance
- Egypt, Amarna
- Number of Elements
- 14
Licensing details
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- Description
-
Ceramic and faience tiles or inlays in blue (faience) and red (ceramic), possibly from Amarna. Such pieces also occur on the Eighteenth Dynasty royal coffins such as that from KV55 believed to be the coffin of Akhenaten (JE 39626).
- Bibliography
-
See Petrie 'Tell el Amarna' plate XX.
- Previous Owner
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Assumed long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 24 Jun 2020
