Artifacts vs Tourist Trash

Artifacts vs Tourist Trash
Artifacts vs Tourist Trash: Don't buy!

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Real Faience is Green not Brown

Egyptian Faience is Green or Greenish blue, not brown.  It is a paste made of crushed Malachite or Copper.  It is fired up like ceramics.  Yet... A Brown Faience Shabty - probably made of Nile Mud, appeared on the market....

M7 2016.

A Shabty is a Servant in the Afterlife.  Lord Osiris demands work from idle spirits so this substitute for burying live servants with the King came into vogue.  This one came with a plastic stand and "inscription."

M7


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