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Two-Handled Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Two-Handled Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

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Date
ca. 1336–1327 B.C.
Medium
Pottery, yellow slip, burnished
Dimensions
H. 33.6 cm (13 1/4 in.); Diam. 20 cm (7 7/8 in.); Diam. of mouth. 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.)
Department
Egyptian Art
Gallery
122
Location
122
Credit
Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1909

Description

Overview Two-Handled Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache New Kingdom ca. 1336–1327 B.C. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 122 This wine jar is made of the fine, hard clay used for jars intended to hold liquid. The mouth of the jar has a wide lip that would have made it easy to seal by tying a papyrus-fiber stopper over the opening. The jar has been restored from fragments found in one of the large jars discovered in KV 54, an embalming cache in the Valley of the Kings that contained objects inscribed with the name of Tutankhamun.