Floral Frieze

Medium: Faience

Geograhical Locations:

• Tell el-Yahudiya, Egypt

Dates:ca 1187–1156 B.C.E.

Dimensions: 2 1/2 × 1 × 11 1/2 in. (6.4 × 2.5 × 29.2 cm) mounted: 5 × 14 × 1 1/4 in. (12.7 × 35.6 × 3.2 cm)

Collections:

• Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

Exhibitions:

• Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity
• Ancient Egyptian Art

Accession Number: 55.182a-i

Image: 55.182a-i_PS22.jpg,

Catalogue Description:
Register of nine faience tiles representing lotus, rosettes, and grape frieze. Forms alternately conventionalized lotus flower and triangles, the latter inlaid with rosettes and bunches of grapes or with conventionalized tree (?). Polychrome glaze, red, blue, white yellow, etc. The marks on the rear sides of fragment d and fragment g. Condition: Poor. Three lotus forms incomplete. Two rosettes missing. Glaze worn.

Brooklyn Museum