Two-Handled Jar from the Burial

Two-Handled Jar from the Burial

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two pottery jars like this one were found leaning against the left shoulder of Ruiu's coffin in the east chamber of her father Neferkhawet's tomb. Such buff-colored jars, with line decoration in red and dark brown paint, are typical of the time period. Each jar were originally covered by small red ware saucer that were cut to correspond to the lip of the jar. This jar came to New York in the division of finds, but its lid remained in Egypt.

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.