Lioness-Headed Goddess
The lustrous blue glaze on this example of Egyptian faience (a silica-based ceramic that does not include clay but is more like glass) imitated the tones of turquoise, which was imported from the Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian faience was inexpensive to produce, but the results wer...
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11753
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object
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normalized
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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4
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1546_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1546_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1546_Back_DD_RS2009.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1546 |
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Egyptian
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