Two-Handled Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

New Kingdom

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.

Two-Handled Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache, Pottery, yellow slip, burnished

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Two-Handled Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache, Pottery, yellow slip, burnished
Two-Handled Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache, Pottery, yellow slip, burnished

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