Faience Ribbed Jar

Faience Ribbed Jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This small globular jar is made from Egyptian faience, a ceramic material associating a siliceous paste with an alkaline glaze, here of a characteristic turquoise blue. The ribbed pattern brings to mind similar a decoration found on metal vessels produced during the New Kingdom. Although this example is not very common, two comparable jars were found near a burial by a Belgian archaeological mission working in Elkab in 1999 that were dated to the New Kingdom or the Third Intermediate Period.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.