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Clay was used for a myriad of functions in ancient Egypt, of which one of the most important was the production of pottery vessels. The manufacture of pottery has a history of over five thousand years in ancient Egypt, this book concentrates on that from the time of the first pharaohs, approximately 3000 BC, to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 BC. Pottery was used for vessels which served a wide variety of functions, including everyday cooking and domestic purposes, storage of cosmetics and oils, the storage and transport of food and drink, and use in temple and funerary rituals. While the majority of the pottery from ancient Egypt is plain and utilitarian, potters decorated vessels with elaborate designs incorporating a wide range of motifs, and produced numerous types of 'fancy forms' such as vessels in the form of humans, animals and birds. The Egyptian potters were highly skilled in their craft and produced an enormous variety of vessels. Using information drawn from such diverse sources as tomb reliefs and inscriptions, as well as the large amount of pottery from pharaonic Egypt that survives today, this book examines the techniques of pottery manufacture, types of decoration and the function of pottery in that society. The historical development of Egyptian pottery is outlined and its role in Egyptology today is examined.

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Ostraka --- Tablets (Paleography) --- Greek language --- Written communication --- Ostraca --- Tablettes (Paléographie) --- Grec (Langue) --- Communication écrite --- Catalogs. --- Writing. --- Catalogues --- Ecriture --- Dakhla Oasis (Egypt) --- Dakhla (Egypte) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Tablettes (Paléographie) --- Communication écrite --- Antiquités --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- Waxen tablets --- Writing tablets --- Diptychs --- Inscriptions --- Paleography --- Writing materials and instruments --- Classical languages --- Indo-European languages --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Writing --- Catalogs --- al-Dakhilah (Egypt) --- Dakhilah Oasis (Egypt) --- Dakhleh Oasis (Egypt) --- ed Dakhla (Egypt) --- el Dakhla (Egypt)

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This volume presents the blue-painted pottery from the EES excavations at Kom Rabia, one of the few specific site collections that spans the entire period of manufacture of this distinctive type of ceramics. All of the fragments studied by the author are presented within their find contexts arranged according to the main chronological phases into which activity at the site can be divided. Despite the fragmentary nature of the material, which does not permit a detailed discussion of its morphological evolution, it does enable a comparison of the decorative motifs with material from other major sites such as Amarna, Karnak, Malkata and Qantir. From this, it is possible to assess whether there was a Memphite production centre and how the Kom Rabia assemblage compares qualitatively and quantitatively to the others. The volume presents the first comprehensive multi-site listing of the decorative motifs.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Memphis (Extinct city) --- Antiquities --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Egypt - Memphis (Extinct city) --- Memphis (Extinct city) - Antiquities