Sealed Jar

Sealed Jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This decorated pottery jar was inside the coffin of Harmose (36.3.172), near the mummy's head. The mouth of the jar is covered with an upturned saucer that is held in place with a small piece of linen cloth, a standard mode of sealing a pottery container.

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.