Jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This wheel-made jug and a jar with basket handles (16.10.427) are made of marl clay, covered with a pale coating, burnished, and decorated in red and black paint. The shape of the jug and the contrast between the light-colored surface and the darker ladderlike designs dividing the vessel body into segments recall Cypriot White Pendant Line juglets that were imported into Egypt a generation or two earlier, at the end of the Second Intermediate Period. The Egyptian potters of early Dynasty 18 adapted both the shape and the style of red and black decoration which they also used on typically Egyptian pottery forms. The jug was excavated by the Museum's Egyptian Expedition. It had been placed at the head end of an anthropoid (human-shaped) coffin along with several other containers, several of which came to the Museum when the finds were divided with the Egyptian Antiquities Service. These include the pottery jar mentioned above, three jars of Egyptian alabaster (16.10.421, .423–.424), one of serpentine (16.10.422), three ivory combs (16.10.428–.430), a small ivory cosmetic box (16.10.425).

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