Statuette of a flutist

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This small bronze statuette depicts a man standing on top of a base with his left leg forward. He wears a skull cap and a long straight garment wrapped at the front. The artist did not differentiate the hands from the instruments they are holding, but his raised hands clearly hold two flutes. His right hand is raised higher than the other, placing the flutes to his left, where he could breathe air into them to play them. As the man eternally plays his instruments, his figure alludes to significance of music and musicians in religious experience of the first millennium B.C.

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