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Large rock tomb-chapels, painted. Hard drab pottery. Alabaster kohl-pots, good forms. Globular beads, large; cornelian, amethyst, and green glaze. Scroll pattern scarabs. XIV-XVII Dynasties. 2900-1600 B.C. Small flasks with handles, black with pricked patterns. Coarsely cut scarabs. Shell beads. New Kingdom XVIII-XXI Dynasties, 1587-952 B.C. Small painted tombs.
Alabaster kohl-pots, clumsy forms to 1450; tubes of stone, glaze, wood, or reed 1450-1200. Bubastites, XXII-XXV Dynasties, 950-664 B.C. Clumsy large jars, widening to bottom, small handles. Green glazed figures of cat-head goddess, cats, pigs, and sacred eyes; coarse glass beads, yellow and black: copper wire bracelets. Glass beads with blue spots in circles of brown and white.
The other colours before mentioned were in current use for not more than four or five centuries; that is to say, from the time of Ahmes I. to the time of the Ramessides. It was then, and only then, that ûshabtiû of white or red glaze, rosettes and lotus flowers in yellow, red, and violet, and parti-coloured kohl-pots abounded. The potters of the time of Amenhotep III. affected greys and violets.
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