Dummy Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay

Dummy Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This "dummy" jug is made of solid stone and was intended as a piece of burial equipment. Although the inscription names both the Mayor of Thebes Sennefer and his wife, the Royal Nurse Senetnay, it was probably intended for her burial. Like other royal wet-nurses, Senetnay had been given a tomb in the royal cemetery we now call the Valley of the Kings. Four canopic jars inscribed for her as well as numerous other dummy jars (some inscribed with Senetnay's name alone, others with hers and Sennefer's) were discovered in tomb number 42 (KV 42) in 1900. For more information on the jars and KV 42, 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.