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.

Ancient egyptian granite vases. Most 19th century archaeologists assumed the ancient egyptians only had crude hand tools. 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 pottery includes all objects of fired clay from ancient egypt. Alabaster bowl the above bowl was found at abu rawash and is made of.

Some delicate vases are made of very brittle stone such as schist like a flint and yet are finished turned and polished to a flawless paper thin edge an extraordinary feat of craftsmanship. It appears that vase making was a considerable post in ancient egypt. First and foremost ceramics served as household wares for the storage preparation transport and consumption of food drink and raw materials. Crystal vases made of solid quartz carved over 2 000 years ago with ancient technology.

The ancient egyptians made these tools out of a variety of rock types including granite basalt and sandstone clark engelbach 1930. 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.