Etudes Alexandrines 4, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Cairo, 2000 |
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The collection of Graeco-Roman faience held within the Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria is one of the richest in the world. This ware, so seductive in its varied colour and glazing, its rich repertory of forms and iconography, had never yet been the object of collective study. Plunging into the corpus of some 1800 objects (one third from the Graeco-Roman Museum, the remaining two from the great collections, published or otherwise, held in Egypt, Europe and the United States), the authors lay forth the knowledge of manufacturing techniques, the workshops, distribution and datation of this ware in all its forms and decoration. Particular attention is brought to bear on the connections faience ware had with contemporary production realised in other materials in an attempt to better define the typological and decorative repertoire in use within Ptolemaic and imperial Egypt. | |||||
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