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Amarna: finds from a Faience workshop

Petrie 1894: 25 : 'Fortunately the sites of three or four glass factories and two large glazing works, were discovered'. Petrie does not give any plan of these places but said: (Petrie 1894: 25) 'though the actual work-rooms had almost vanished, the waste heaps were full of fragments...'

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Moulds for objects with king's names

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Moulds for different kind of objects, mostly jewellery

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Ingots (Egyptian blue)
pottery jar with Egyptian blue in it
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faience and glazed objects found at Amarna | glass and glazed objects from Amarna

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