Rosette Stamp Seal with Striding Lion

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The back of the seal is decorated with star-shaped incisions forming a stylized rosette. A striding lion facing to the right is deeply incised on the underside. Two horizontal strokes may represent a corrupt version of the royal epithet neb tawy, "lord of the two lands." The type of domed seal, the schematic representation of the lion, the style in which the incisions are made, and the corrupt version of the title assign the seal to the late Ramesside period or to Dynasty 21.

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