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Analysis of faience from Memphis

Faience, a glazed ceramic with a crushed quartz core, is one of the materials that is instantly associated with Egypt. During the Polemaeic and Roman periods, it occurs in new foms, using new colorants and new techniques. This paper presents early results of an ongoing analytical study into this faience, revealing possible links with both earlier New Kingdom Egyptain and later Islamic technologies.