Unguent Jar from Neferkhawet's Tomb

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two cosmetic jars of dark stone were found inside the coffin of Amenemhat, a scribe who lived during the joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III. The jars were located near the right leg of the mummy next to a hes-vase made of faience. Both contained a brown resinous crust and appear to have been closed with a piece of linen cloth that was tied around the neck with linen cord that was secured with a mud seal. Amenemhat was the son of a man named Neferkhawet, and his burial was found in the family tomb in Western Thebes. This tomb was excavated by the Museum's Egyptian Expedition in 1935 and, at the end of the excavation season, this jar came to New York and the other went to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

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