Ointment jar

Ointment jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This vase was found in a group with a string of beads and a Tell el-Yahudiya juglet (now in Cairo JE 60 263) with three zones of decoration. Such juglets have been excavated in Tell el-Dab'a strata F and E3, dated generally to ca. 1710-1650 B. C.. According to the shape, the vase could, however, also be earlier (heirloom?).

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.