Stone and faience vases. Chamber tombs at Mycenae. 15th - 14th cent. B.C. Most of the stone vases were imported from Minoan Crete, a region with a long tradition in stone vase manufacture, or from Egypt and the Near East. Those in faience, an artificial material made of ground quartz bound with lime and alkali, came from Egypt and the Near East. 
<p>In the image aboveː Egyptian diorite vase, transformed into a rhyton when a hole was drilled into its base. Originally from a looted Egyptian tomb of the 3rd Millennium B.C. Tomb 55. Inv. no. 2919. National Archaeological Museum of Athens. 
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Textː Museum inscription.
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