Working in Memphis: The Production of Faience at Roman Period Kom Helul (Excavation Memoirs)

Nicholson, Paul T

ISBN 10: 0856982105 / ISBN 13: 9780856982101

Published by Egypt Exploration Society, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Working in Memphis: The Production of Faience at Roman Period Kom Helul (Excavation Memoirs)
• Publisher: Egypt Exploration Society
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0856982105
• ISBN 13: 9780856982101
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

This book reports on the excavation of a faience kiln at Kom Helul, Memphis. The kiln is of the early Roman Period and appears to be of the same type as those excavated by Flinders Petrie in the early twentieth century. The book attempts to place Petrie's finds in their archaeological context and to reinterpret his evidence in the light of findings from the new excavation. In so doing, a new outline of the chaine operatoire of faience production during the Roman Period is proposed and its relationship to the making of pre-Roman faience is discussed. The book includes an illustrated catalogue of finds.