Jar with decorated rim, swivel, and knob

Jar with decorated rim, swivel, and knob

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The color of this cylindrical vessel suggests a Late Period or Ptolemaic Period date, although the type of the vessel seems unfamiliar in Egypt. In a thickening on one side of the vessel's lip there is a hole for a swivel for the now missing lid. When meant to remain closed, string would have secured a knob on the lid to a knob protruding from the side of the vessel opposite the swivel.

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.