
Fayoum Pottery: Ceramic Arts and Crafts in an Egyptian Oasis
R. Neil Hewison.
AUC Press, 2021.
“loola k-kasuura ma-kaanit il-faxuura, ‘were it not for breakages, there would be no potteries.’”
—From an Egyptian rhyming proverb in Fayoum Pottery
—Kyle Pakka
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