
Funerary stela of the bowman Semin
An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Semin is represented with a bow in his left hand and a sheaf of arrows in his right. The inscriptions runs along the top and right side.
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.