Jar for Eye Paint (kohl)
Unknown
ca. 1850–1700 B.C. · Black stone · Egyptian Art
This vessel for eye paint with separate neck and lid can be dated approximately by excavated parallels to the late Middle Kingdom, when the deposition of such containers in graves was a frequently observed custom.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1850–1700 B.C.
- Medium
- Black stone
- Department
- Egyptian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910
