Egyptian Pottery (Shire Egyptology)

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Clay used to be used for a myriad of functions in ancient Egypt, of which probably the most important used to be the production of pottery vessels. The manufacture of pottery has a history of over five thousand years in ancient Egypt. This book concentrates on that from the time of the first pharaohs, approximately 3000 BC, to the conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. Pottery used to be used for vessels that served all kinds of functions, including on a regular basis cooking and domestic purposes, storage of cosmetics and oils, storage and transport of food and drinks, and use in temple and funerary rituals. Even as the majority of the pottery from ancient Egypt is plain and utilitarian, potters decorated vessels with elaborate designs incorporating quite a lot of motifs and produced a lot of types of ‘fancy forms’ such as vessels in the form of humans, animals and birds. The Egyptian potters were highly skilled in their craft and made an enormous variety of vessels. The usage of information drawn from such diverse sources as tomb reliefs and inscriptions, in addition to the large amount of pottery from pharaonic Egypt that survives today, this book examines the techniques of pottery manufacture, types of decoration and the function of pottery in that society. The historical development of Egyptian pottery is outlined and its role in Egyptology today is examined.

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