Head of a goddess

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This small head of a goddess features a striated wig with a uraeus at the brow and a curious bulbous-shaped headdress with its very top missing. This might be a depiction of the white crown of Upper Egypt, in which case the head might belong to Nekhbet, the goddess of Upper Egypt, but other deities can wear this crown as well. On the proper left side of the face one can still see the original color of the blue glaze. In most other areas, it has discolored to a brownish color.

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