Fragment of a Model Jar

Fragment of a Model Jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is a "dummy" jar, made of solid stone with only a small depression at the top. Enough of the inscription is preserved to be able to say that it once named the Mayor of Thebes Sennefer and his wife, the Royal Nurse Senetnay. The original shape would have been similar to another jar in the collection that names Senetnay, and a complete version of the text may be seen on a third. The incised inscription still preserves much of the original pigment: the lines separating the columns of text were filled with red and the hieroglyphs with blue. The accession card for this jar records that it was discovered in the Valley of the Kings by Theodore M. Davis in 1913. During the 1912-13 season, Davies was funding excavations in and around the tomb of Siptah (KV 47). This tomb in the southern part of the Valley of the Kings, about fifty yards down hill from KV 42 where burial equipment of Senetnay had been discovered in 1900. It seems likely that this jar was discovered somewhere in the area of Siptah's tomb. For more information on KV 42 and its contents, see the Curatorial Interpretation below.

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.