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Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt

CHAPTER V
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The handles are pale green, and the thread round the lip is pale blue.

Princess Nesikhonsu had beside her, in the vault at Deir el Bahari, some glass goblets of similar work.

Seven were in whole colours, light green and blue; four were of black glass spotted with white; one only was decorated with many-coloured fronds arranged in two rows (fig.

228).
The national glass works were therefore in full operation during the time of the great Theban dynasties.

Huge piles of scoriae mixed with slag yet mark the spot where their furnaces were stationed at Tell el Amarna, the Ramesseum, at El Kab, and at the Tell of Eshmuneyn.
[Illustration: Fig.


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