Jar for Eye Paint (kohl) with Attached Stand

Jar for Eye Paint (kohl) with Attached Stand

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The piece is part of a group of objects found in tomb V21 at Abydos with two bodies (04.18.1–04.18.49). The ointment jars 04.18.47a, b and .48a, b in the group can be dated by comparison with similar jars found at Dahshur and with the box 26.7.1438 (26.7.1439a, b-.1441a, b, .1442) inscribed with the name of Amenemhat IV (ca. 1814-1805 B. C.).

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.