Libation Vessel

Libation Vessel

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This spouted libation vessels was near the top of the sand that filled the colonnade and entrance corridor of a Middle Kingdom tomb at Dendera. It was found with a metal incense burner and another spouted libation vessel that was inscribed with the cartouches of Ramesses II. The excavator, W.M.F. Petrie, surmised that the three ritual objects had been stolen from one of the temples and hidden in the tomb which lies about 400 yards (ca. 365 meters) south of the enclosure wall that surrounds the Temple of Hathor.

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.