Bald-headed Man Wearing Gold Collars

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This head came from a small statue of a bald-headed man that was most likely placed in a funerary shrine to receive offerings or graced a temple so the individual resided in a god’s presence. The back pillar displays the beginning of a classic offering formula used on statues for both of those locations, but a small statue of a similar type was found in a deposit associated with a large temple. The double collar of ring beads, known as shebyu, indicates that the statue represented a favored official. The deliberate damage to the nose and both ears indicate evidence of a potentially iconoclastic episode

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