Carinated Stone Jar with Rope Pattern

Carinated Stone Jar with Rope Pattern

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This limestone vessel with its baggy shape and sharp carination of the lower body is a traditional Egyptian shape called the deshret-jar. The form is common in pottery found in burials from the Old Kingdom onward. A raised band with carved diagonal lines imitating a twisted cord decorates the base of the neck. The vessel was deposited in the lowest chamber of a pit tomb cut into the forecourt of a reused Middle Kingdom tomb and belonged to the burial of a man named Nakht. The tomb was covered over during the construction of the causeway of Hatshepsut's mortuary temple sometime after year 7 of her reign

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.