Upper Part of a of Woman from a Pair Statue

Upper Part of a of Woman from a Pair Statue

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The woman here was once part of a small pair statue, the shoulder of another individual, probably her spouse, is just visible to her left. Her strong features, round face, and particularly her wig, diadem, and style of lotus suggest her Ramesside date. Much of the upper portion of a rounded rectangular back pillar inscribed with a classic hetep di nesu formula survives. In the inscription, Re-Horakhty and Hathor are the deities being revered, but the break in the pillar is just after the words "for the ka of" so we do not know whom the statue honored, except the spouse may have been a wab-priest.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.