Carinated Stone Jar with Rope Pattern ca. 1550–1458 New Kingdom 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 t
Carinated Stone Jar with Rope Pattern ca. 1550–1458 New Kingdom 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. Carinated Stone Jar with Rope Pattern 544018
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