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- Title
An Outstanding Glass Statuette Owned by Pharaoh Amenhotep II and Other Early Egyptian Glass Inscribed with Royal Names.
- Authors
Schlick-Nolte, Birgit; Werthmann, Rainer; Loeben, Christian E.
- Abstract
Inscribed glass artifacts from the 16th and 15th centuries B.C. are rare. Generally, they are well dated by royal names and were made with techniques that were most refined during the reign of Amenhotep II (1428-1397 B.C.). Three outstanding statuettes have cartouches of this king on the upper right arm: two green monkeys (glass or vitreous material) and the hybrid goddess Taweret (glass). The last of these is the most sophisticated Egyptian glass statuette and the only precisely dated work of its kind. Analysis of the statuette of Taweret showed that the glass was melted from powders without being stirred. The blue glass is colored by cobalt, probably from the alums of the Western Oases. The yellow glass is colored by particulate lead-antimony oxide, the lead probably from the Eastern Desert. The remains of the core material are very rich in phosphates. Based on the lead-isotope analyses reported here, the Taweret statuette may have been produced in the glass workshop where glass artifacts from the tomb of Amenhotep II were made.
- Subjects
EGYPT; ANCIENT art; ANCIENT art objects; AMENHOTEP II, King of Egypt; GLASS art; EGYPTIAN art objects; EGYPTIAN art; EGYPTIAN goddesses in art; GLASS figurines; ORNAMENTAL cartouches (Decorative arts); EGYPTIAN antiquities; ART history; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Glass Studies, 2011, Vol 53, p11
- ISSN
0075-4250
- Publication type
Article