Faience at Amarna: Old and new research into its brilliant manufacture and use

Two EES Amarna object cards depicting faience inlays discovered during the 1932 excavation of the Great Aten Temple (EES.TA.OC.32-33.016, EES.TA.OC.32-33.030; courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society).

This talk will look into some of the evidence for the production and use of tjehenet (Egyptian faience, lit. ‘brilliant’ or ‘dazzling’) at the Middle Egyptian site of Amarna. Multiple faience workshops have been excavated at Amarna over the past 130 years. These workshops along with some of their outputs will be discussed in tandem with some preliminary results from Boonstra’s current work on the Amarna Great Aten Temple Faience Inlays (AGATFI) project.

A group of fragmentary faience inlays representing a yellow bird from the Great Aten Temple (photo: Stephanie L. Boonstra; courtesy of the Amarna Project).

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Dr Stephanie Boonstra in the Amarna dig house examining faience tiles and inlays (photo: Anna K. Hodgkinson; courtesy of the Amarna Project). 

Speaker

Dr Stephanie Boonstra

Collections Manager, The Egypt Exploration Society

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