Building ceramics (ancient Egypt)

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Faience tiles from the Djoser pyramid .

In ancient Egyptian architectural ceramics is precious architectural decoration of blue-green and colorful faience that of monochrome tiles to figurative motifs ranges. Even in the royal tombs of the 1st Dynasty of Abydos there were green tiles that simulated a mat curtain. The best known are the faience tiles from the "blue chambers" of the Djoser pyramid , which were supposed to represent an afterlife palace made of reed mats and had a complicated fastening system.

In temples and palaces of the New Kingdom , there were at door frames, columns, fillets and throne pedestals colorful inlays in wood and stone in cell technology . Examples of this can be found in Amarna , Malqata , Medinet Habu , in the Palace of Merenptah , in Pi-Ramesse and in Tell el-Jahudija . In New Kingdom temples there were occasionally inlaid rectangular patterns within the base strip.

literature

  • Dieter Arnold : Lexicon of Egyptian architecture . Albatros, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-491-96001-0 , p. 36 (→ Baukeramik).
  • Richard Borrmann : Ceramics in architecture. In: Handbook of Architecture . Part 1: General building construction. Volume 4, Bergstrasse, Stuttgart 1897 ( digitized version ).
  • Cecil Mallaby Firth , James Edward Quibell : The Step Pyramid (= Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte. Excavations at Saqqara. ). Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Cairo 1936, frontispiece, plates 13-17.
  • William C. Hayes : Glazed Tiles from a Palace of Ramesses II at Kantir (= Papers / Metropolitan Museum of Art. No. 3). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1937.
  • Uvo Hölscher : Medinet Habu IV, Festival Scenes of Ramses III. In: Oriental Institute Publications. (OIP) Vol. 55, Chicago 1951, pp. 38-46.
  • Jean-Philippe Lauer : Restauration et transfer au Musée Égyptien d'un panneau orné de faiences bleues. In: Annales du service des antiquités de l'Égypte. (ASAE) Vol. 38, 1938, pp. 551-565.
  • Jean-Philippe Lauer: Histoire monumentale des pyramides d'Egypte, Tome I, Les pyramides à degrés (3rd dynasty). In: Bibliothèque d'Étude de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire. (BdE) Volume 39, Cairo 1962, pp. 76-82.
  • Flinders Petrie : Tell el Amarna. Methuen, London 1894, pp. 9f.