Faience appears in small objects, but it also belongs to architectural settings. The Met’s wall tiles from Djoser’s funerary apartments, object 48.160.1, provide a different scale of encounter.
Connect the material to its setting
The catalogue places the tiles in the Old Kingdom, Dynasty 3, approximately 2630–2611 BCE, and associates them with the Djoser pyramid precinct at Saqqara. These recorded details locate the material within a specific architectural context rather than a general collection of blue objects.
Check what the dimensions describe
The entry gives a height of 113 centimetres and width of 73.7 centimetres. Do not automatically assign those dimensions to each small tile. Read the catalogue and image together to understand the arrangement being recorded, and leave reconstruction questions open where the entry does not answer them.
For a study exercise, place this record beside one small faience object and compare scale and context without assuming identical functions. Use the museum image for the actual tiles; the accompanying illustration is conceptual. The material connects the comparison, while the documented settings keep the objects distinct.