Ancient Egyptian wall moulding from Amarna dated 1550 – 1295 BC

Blue faience grape cluster. Made from two oval moulded halves, with one concave surface and one flat, joined together. The end result being somewhat egg like only with a regularly bumped surface. However to allow attachement to a wall etc. Half of side of the egg is absent, creating a step in the object allowing it to be fixed to the wall. A hole is drilled into the bottom part of the step, and through the top part of the upper half of the other half of the egg. There is a patch of damage the surface decoration on the front side of the cluster.

Ancient Egyptian wall moulding from Amarna dated 1550 – 1295 BC

Object details

  • Reference: BOLMG:1925.46.25.a
  • Material: faience
  • Culture: Dynasty 18
  • Period: New Kingdom
  • Dated: 1550 - 1295 BC
  • Object name: wall moulding
  • Dimensions: Length: 72mm , Width: 50mm , Depth: 37mm
  • Published references: Whittemore T 12 1926
  • Site: Amarna
  • Latitude: 27.645197
  • Longitude: 30.896483