Carinated Stone Jar with Rope Pattern
This limestone vessel with its baggy shape and sharp carination of the lower body is a traditional Egyptian shape called the deshret-jar. The form is common in pottery found in burials from the Old Kingdom onward. A raised band with carved diagonal lines imitating a twisted cord decorates the base of the neck. The vessel was deposited in the lowest chamber of a pit tomb cut into the forecourt of a reused Middle Kingdom tomb and belonged to the burial of a man named Nakht. The tomb was covered over during the construction of the causeway of Hatshepsut's mortuary temple sometime after year 7 of her reign
Artwork Details
- Title: Carinated Stone Jar with Rope Pattern
- Period: New Kingdom
- Dynasty: Dynasty 18, early
- Date: ca. 1550–1458 B.C.
- Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Asasif, Courtyard CC 41, Pit 3, Burial D 1, Beside or on inner coffin, MMA excavations, 1915–16
- Medium: Limestone
- Dimensions: H. 16.7 cm (6 9/16 in); diam. 18.7 cm (7 3/8 in)
Diam. of lid 9.9 cm (3 7/8 in) - Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1916
- Object Number: 16.10.451a, b
- Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art
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