Head of a Queen Wearing a Vulture Headdress

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This serene looking queen’s rank is identified by the vulture headdress she wears, although its head now missing. Her delicate features and slightly elongated head indicate that she must date before the Tuthmoside period, but parallels are scarce. It is difficult to identify where in the prior one hundred or so years before that family’s rule begins she belongs. Given the damage to the back of the statue, the queen seems to have been attached to another element now missing.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.

Metropolitan Museum of Art