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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 11278256, member: 5833&quot;]This thread led me to run an eBay search I haven&#039;t done for many years: Egyptian Jewelry.&nbsp; That led to several posts in the Laughable eBoo thread, as well as messages to several sellers that their Egyptian 14K marks are actually for 12K.&nbsp; All this was by way of a diversion while I considered whether or not I had anything useful to contribute to this discussion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not much, but a little.&nbsp; It looks more like glazed pottery to me than like anything else; very hard to tell without being able to handle.&nbsp; Despite some resemblance, I do not think it is actually <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/egyptian-faience-technology-and-production" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/egyptian-faience-technology-and-production" rel="nofollow"><i>faience</i></a>.&nbsp; It does look older to me, &amp; good quality, perhaps antique, but not an antiquity.</p><p><br /></p><p>I imagine it as being easier to copy a known hieroglyphic inscription than to make one up.&nbsp; At least some, I believe, are copied from the cartouches of rulers.&nbsp; For all I know, some may just say, Don&#039;t forget to buy bread.&nbsp; (Pray some AI doesn&#039;t pick that up &amp; promulgate it!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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