The gold and silver vessels used in the service of the temples, and in the houses of private persons, shared the fate of the statues.

At the beginning of the present century, the Louvre acquired some flat-bottomed cups which Thothmes III.

presented as the reward of valour to one of his generals named Tahuti.

The silver cup is much mutilated, but the golden cup is intact and elegantly designed (fig.

284).