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Brick Making in Egypt" Colors. (iwen) In ancient Egypt, color was an integral part of the substance and being of everything in life. The color of something was a clue to the substance or heart of the matter. When it was said that one could not know the color of the gods, it meant that they themselves were unknowable, and could never be completely understood. In art, colors were clues to the nature of the beings depicted in the work.

For instance, when Amon was portrayed with blue skin, it alluded to his cosmic aspect. Osiris' green skin was a reference to his power over vegetation and to his own resurrection. Of course, not every use of color in Egyptian art was symbolic. The Egyptian artist had at his disposal six colors, including black and white. The color green (wadj) was the color of vegetation and new life. The pigment green could be produced from a paste manufactured by mixing oxides of copper and iron with silica and calcium. Red (desher) was the color of life and of victory. Digg This! Del.icio.us Stumble Upon. Egyptian faience. Egyptian faience is a sintered-quartz ceramic displaying surface vitrification which creates a bright lustre of various blue-green colours.

Defined as a “material made from powdered quartz covered with a true vitreous coating, usually in a transparent blue or green isotropic glass," faience is distinct from the partly crystalline compound Egyptian blue (CuO CaO4 SiO2).[1] Notably, faience is considerably more porous than glass proper and can be cast in molds to create vessels or objects.[2] Often incorrectly labeled as a form of ceramic despite containing the major elemental components of glass, faience is frequently discussed in surveys of ancient pottery. Introduction[edit] From the inception of faience in the archaeological record of Ancient Egypt, the elected colors of the glazes varied within an array of blue-green hues.

Egyptian faience beaded fishnet dress dating from the 4th dynasty. Relationship with Egyptian copper industry[edit] Relationship with Egyptian glass industry[edit] Ancient Egyptian Faience. Building in ancient Egypt. Most of the ancient Egyptian buildings have disappeared leaving no trace. Built of sun baked bricks made of Nile mud and straw, houses, palaces and city walls crumbled when they stopped being looked after. Stone structures like temples and tombs fared better, but even they fell victim to the ravages of time, the greed of men, to earthquakes and subsidence. One shouldn't be surprised by what has disappeared but by how much is left. Planning The planning of Egyptian architects and stone-masons was meticulous. 168.

The drawings on the left were found by the French at the quarries of Gebel Abu Feida in 1789. The administrators had to plan too. Hundreds, at times thousands, of workers, soldiers and scribes had to be fed and housed in inhospitable areas, the quarried rock moved to the Nile and barges built just before the beginning of the inundation.

The construction itself took place during the dry season in some places as flooding occasionally occurred. Ceremonies.