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Faience Wall Tiles Unknown

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Title/s	Faience Wall Tiles
Maker/s	Unknown
Category	faience tiles
Description	Tiles. Faience is crushed quartz with a vitreous (glassy) glaze. These tiles were strung together and plastered onto the walls in the funerary apartment of King Djoser.
Field Collection	Saqqara, the step pyramid, Egypt
Dimensions	height width
Period	Third Dynasty, Reign of Djoser
Date	circa 2690 B.C. — 2670 B.C.
Provenance	Gayer-Anderson, R.G. (Major) (Filtered for: Antiquities)
Documentation	(1982) Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge (Cambs.) : Pevensey Press (2005) London: Scala [page: 181]
Material/s	faience
Accession Number	E.GA.4359.1943 (Antiquities) (Reference Number: 125493; Input Date: 2006-01-13 / Last Edit: 2009-02-11)

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Faience Wall Tiles

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