{"id":17227,"date":"2018-08-25T14:23:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T19:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=17227"},"modified":"2018-08-25T14:23:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T19:23:23","slug":"word-of-the-day-399","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/08\/25\/word-of-the-day-399\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Egyptian Faience<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Egyptian\u00a0<a title=\"Faience\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faience\">faience<\/a><\/b>\u00a0is a\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Sintered\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sintered\">sintered<\/a>&#8211;<a title=\"Quartz\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quartz\">quartz<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Ceramic\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ceramic\">ceramic<\/a>\u00a0displaying surface\u00a0<a title=\"Glass transition\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glass_transition\">vitrification<\/a>\u00a0which creates a bright lustre of various colours, with blue-green being the most common. Defined as a \u201cmaterial made from powdered quartz covered with a true vitreous coating, usually in a transparent blue or green isotropic glass,&#8221; faience is distinct from the crystalline compound\u00a0<a title=\"Egyptian blue\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Egyptian_blue\">Egyptian blue<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Egyptian_faience#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Notably, faience is considerably more porous than glass proper and can be cast in molds to create vessels or objects.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Egyptian_faience#cite_note-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup>Although it contains the major constituents of\u00a0<a title=\"Glass\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glass\">glass<\/a>\u00a0(silica, lime) and no\u00a0<a title=\"Clay\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clay\">clay<\/a>\u00a0until late periods, faience is frequently discussed in surveys of ancient pottery, as in stylistic and art-historical terms objects made of it are closer to pottery styles than\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Ancient Egyptian glass\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_Egyptian_glass\">ancient Egyptian glass<\/a>. <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Egyptian_faience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeology.org\/issues\/311-1809\/world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>World Roundup<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; <em><strong>Archaeology<\/strong><\/em> (September\/October 2018):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ISRAEL<\/strong>: A small faience head from Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel may represent a king who lived during the 9th century B.C. The sculpture, which sports a manicured beard, wavy tresses, and a painted black and yellow headband, was likely part of a figurine that would have stood about 8 to 10 inches tall. Its high degree of artistry is leading experts to believe it may depict King Ahab of Israel, King Hazael of Aram- Damascus, or King Ethbaal of Tyre, three rulers known from the Bible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow the link to see the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian Faience: Egyptian\u00a0faience\u00a0is a\u00a0sintered&#8211;quartz\u00a0ceramic\u00a0displaying surface\u00a0vitrification\u00a0which creates a bright lustre of various colours, with blue-green being the most common. Defined as a \u201cmaterial made from powdered quartz covered with a true vitreous coating, usually in a transparent blue or green isotropic glass,&#8221; faience is distinct from the crystalline compound\u00a0Egyptian blue.[1]\u00a0Notably, faience \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/08\/25\/word-of-the-day-399\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17228,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17227\/revisions\/17228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}