Open-Mouthed Cosmetic Jar with Lid

Open-Mouthed Cosmetic Jar with Lid

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This Egyptian alabaster cosmetic jar was found with two others inside the coffin of a scribe named Amenemhat. They had been placed near the head of the mummy. This jar is well made from fine-grained white stone, but the lid is too small for the jar and may be a replacement. It contained a brown, crusty residue that may originally have been an unguent or salve. Amenemhat was the son of a man named Neferkhawet, and his burial was found in the family tomb in Western Thebes.

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.