ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates that Petrie's excavations produced a varied but comprehensive body of material manufactured from faience. The industrial waste from the site at the Petrie Museum can be associated with the early Roman period. Faience statuettes from the Late and Ptolemaic periods have a pale green glaze and tight matrix which appears in datable vessels from both periods. The use of faience in the Ptolemaic period has been associated with Greek royal cults or royal activity and in this case must have been important in Memphis during the Ptolemaic period. As with the Ptolemaic vessels, Roman faience is restricted to a limited number of forms, but there is a much greater variety which potentially spans a period of 400 years. Full rosettes, which appear here with an applique wedjat eye, are also commonly found on both open and closed faience vessels of the Ptolemaic period.
