Ancient Egyptian Granite Vases

Such items include beer and wine mugs and water jugs but also bread molds fire pits lamps and stands for holding round vessels which were all commonly used in the.

Ancient egyptian granite vases.

Stoneware such as this has not been found from any later era in egyptian history it seems that the skills necessary were lost. Most 19th century archaeologists assumed the ancient egyptians only had crude hand tools. We can read an inscription concerning imhotep which tributes him as the chief vase maker amongst his many titles. The ancient egyptians made these tools out of a variety of rock types including granite basalt and sandstone clark engelbach 1930.

First and foremost ceramics served as household wares for the storage preparation transport and consumption of food drink and raw materials. In 1880 sir william flinders petrie realized that only lathe turning could have produced the symmetry and balance he found on thousands of bowls and vases at gizeh and saqqara. It appears that vase making was a considerable post in ancient egypt. These tools could be rubbed by hand back and forth or in a circular motion in a set pattern across the surface of the stone object with or without abrasive.

Ancient egyptian pottery includes all objects of fired clay from ancient egypt. Mass produced lathe cut vases petrie submitted evidence that showed that the ancient egyptians used lathes.