Two-Handled Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache ca. 1336-1327 B.C. New Kingdom 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. ca. 1336-1327 B.C.. Pottery, yellow slip, burnished. New Kingdom. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Valley of the Kings, Embalming Cache of Tutankhamun (KV 54), Davis/Ayrton excavations, 1907-08. Dynasty 18
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