TY - BOOK AU - Florence Dunn Friedman AU - Georgina Borromeo AU - Mimi Leveque TI - Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience SN - 0500237549 PY - 1998/// CY - USA PB - Thames And Hudson KW - English KW - Faience KW - General KW - Ancient Egypt KW - Archaeology N1 - Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, May 19, 1998-July 5, 1998; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I., Aug. 24, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 31, 1999-Apr. 25, 1999; Faience: the brilliance of eternity / Florence Dunn Friedman -- Symbols and meanings / Robert Steven Bianchi -- By necessity or design: Faience use in ancient Egypt / Diana Craig Patch -- Nubian faience / Peter Lacovara -- Materials and technology / Paul T. Nicholson -- The plates: Early faience -- Faience and the royal life -- Women's use and female-related themes -- Faience in daily life and devotion -- Funerary uses of faience -- Materials and technology -- Notes on the plates ER -