Two-Handled Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Two-Handled Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This wine jar is made of the fine, hard clay used for jars intended to hold liquid. The mouth of the jar has a wide lip that would have made it easy to seal by tying a papyrus-fiber stopper over the opening. The jar has been restored from fragments found in one of the large jars discovered in KV 54, an embalming cache in the Valley of the Kings that contained objects inscribed with the name of Tutankhamun.

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.