Ewer

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This ewer was from a set that also included a basin (see 26.2.13), and would have been used for hand washing. Since all excavated examples, including this one, come from tombs, it is likely that their primary purpose was for ritual purification. Illustrations of two such sets can be seen in the Tomb of Perneb (13.183.3), in a relief representing the funerary meal.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art