Spouted Faience Heset Vase with Domed Lid
Vessel: Height 16.8cm (6.61 inches), Diameter 6.1cm (2.4inches)
Lid: Height 5.2cm (2.04 inches), Diameter 5.5cm (2.16 inches)
Grand Egyptian Museum #13734
"Shaped like the hieroglyph heset, "to praise," this vase and the nemset vessel are the type of receptacles used during Tutankhamun's Opening of the Mouth ceremony." (info card)
"Sixty-seven ritual pieces were found in the tomb, distributed originally between one box in the Antechamber and another in the Annexe." "The tall, slender heset vase was discovered in the box in the Annexe, along with seven more heset vases and a number of other pieces." ( - Zahi Hawass, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs (National Geographic 2005), page 254)
