Shallow bowl with a recurved rim

Shallow bowl with a recurved rim

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This round-bottomed vessel with flaring recurved rim belongs to the type called Meidum bowls. It is made from veined Egyptian alabaster with a band of irregularly spaced streaks of reddish brown that vary in intensity.

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.