Lentoid Bottle ("New Year's Bottle")

Lentoid Bottle ("New Year's Bottle")

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The cylindrical neck of this "New Year's Bottle" is flanked by two ibex heads that take the place of handles; the mouth is broken away. The shoulder of the lentoid body is adorned with the representation of a floral garland. Faience flasks of this type, often inscribed with good wishes and apparently filled with water from the Nile, were given as gifts at the New Year.

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.