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Faience in the New Kingdom (about 1550-1069 BC)
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fragment
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piece of foundation deposit
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fragment
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ear plug
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gaming pieces
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fragment of a tile
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Decorated faience bowls are very popular in the New Kingdom, and mainly known from tombs and Hathor sanctuaries. They are decorated with flowers (most often lotus), animals and fishes, and sometimes images of Hathor. Such bowls may have been used in the cult of the goddess or of the dead, for safe birth and/or for rebirth.
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from Sedment
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Amarna
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Gurob
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Strauß 1974 (on the New Kingdom bowls in Munich, with further discussion)