Kohl Jar Inscribed for Hatshepsut as God's Wife

New Kingdom

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 111

This kohl jar imitates a bundle of reeds. A flat lid (now missing) once swiveled around a metal pin, a piece of which still remains in the hole. Inscribed with the title "God's Wife," the elegant vessel could not have been part of Hatshepsut's final burial equipment but must have been made during the queen's marriage to Thutmose II or during the first years of her joint reign with Thutmose III. She probably gave it to a valued courtier or a family member. We have no means of ascertaining whether she used the little vase herself before she passed it on as a royal gift.

Kohl Jar Inscribed for Hatshepsut as God's Wife, Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

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Kohl Jar Inscribed for Hatshepsut as God's Wife, Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
Kohl Jar Inscribed for Hatshepsut as God's Wife, Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
Kohl Jar Inscribed for Hatshepsut as God's Wife, Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
Kohl Jar Inscribed for Hatshepsut as God's Wife, Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
Kohl Jar Inscribed for Hatshepsut as God's Wife, Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

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