Tile with flower decoration

Tile with flower decoration

This tile formed part of the wall decoration of the great palace at El-`Amarna. It shows a vegetative decoration of plant stems, blue flax flowers, and separate inlaid flowers of Anthemis pseudocotula, which has white leaves and yellow flower heads.

Present location PELIZAEUS-MUSEUM [04/030] HILDESHEIM

Inventory number 4824

Dating AMENHOTEP IV/AMENOPHIS IV/NEFERKHEPERURE/AKHENATEN

Archaeological Site EL-`AMARNA/AKHETATEN

Category TILE

Material FAIENCE; GLAZE

Technique FAYENCE; GLAZED; INLAY; PAINTED

Height 1.7 cm

Width 7.4 cm

Bibliography•Meisterwerke altägyptischer Keramik : 5000 Jahre Kunst und Kunsthandwerk aus Ton und Fayence, Montabaur 1978, Kat.-Nr. 237.

•Eggebrecht, A. (Hrsg.), Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim : Die ägyptische Sammlung, Hildesheim - Mainz 1993, Abb. 56.

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