TY  - SER
AU  - Stocks,Denys A.
TI  - Derivation of ancient Egyptian faience core and glaze materials
KW  - ANTROPOLOGIA
N1  - Antiquity 71 (1997): 179-182
N2  - An essential ingredient of the lovely blues in ancient Egyptian materials Ñ faience, glazes, frits Ñ is copper. How did the knowledge of that copper use arise? There is a telling congruence with Egyptian techniques in drilling stone artefacts, and the characteristics of the powder drilled out as waste
ER  -