Quadruple Offering Vase in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2008

Quadruple Offering Vase
First Intermediate Period- early Middle Kingdom (2100- 1950 BC)
Marl clay from Upper Egypt

Accession # 90.6.4

Many offerings in ancient Egypt were repeated four times and thus directed to the four corners of the universe. Here, the potter incorporated that idea into a multiple miniature of a water jar.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.