A rare Egyptian White Faience Vessel, Hyksos Period, ca. 1600 BCE Medium - Stucco a brief era of Jewish

a brief era of Jewish independence between the Old and New Testaments

The fetish of Neith as amulet

The vessel broadens from a wide opening to a flared shoulder

Exhibition Musee Jacquemart-Andre (Bruxelles

A rare Egyptian White Faience Vessel, Hyksos Period, ca. 1600 BCE Medium - Stucco a brief era of JewishThis rare thistleshaped vessel is executed in white faience and decorated in an umber pigment applied in vertical panels of zigzag motif. Directly beneath the lip is a narrow register of closely spaced vertical strokes, followed by a second band composed of zigzag ornament, a decorative schema seen in small faience wares of the Second Intermediate Period. The vessels refined form and pared ornament suggest it was intended as a votive or personal