Gifts Of The Nile

One of the ancient world's most beautiful forms of ceramic is today known as Egyptian faience. The ancient Egyptians named it tjebnet, meaning that which is brilliant or scintillating, and in their eyes it glistened with symbolic light. Although faience was made of common materials, especially quartz sand grains or crushed quartz pebbles, it nevertheless took on the splendor of gold or semiprecious gems.

Hardcover. English. Thames & Hudson. 1998. ISBN: 9780500237540. 288 pp. Good with dw, some light foxing in prelims. Book No: 2003175