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

CHAPTER V
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The vase of Queen Tii in the Gizeh collection is of grey and blue, with ornaments in two colours round the neck.

The fabrication of many- coloured enamels seems to have attained its greatest development under Khuenaten; at all events, it was at Tell el Amarna that I found the brightest and most delicately fashioned specimens, such as yellow, green, and violet rings, blue and white fleurettes, fish, lutes, figs, and bunches of grapes.[64] One little statuette of Horus has a red face and a blue body; a ring bezel bears the name of a king in violet upon a ground of light blue.

However restricted the space, the various colours are laid in with so sure a hand that they never run one into the other, but stand out separately and vividly.

A vase to contain antimony powder, chased and mounted on a pierced stand, is glazed with reddish brown (fig.

230).
Another, in the shape of a mitred hawk, is blue picked out with black spots.


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