Carpenter's chest of Ankhef

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The whitewashed wooden box with sliding lid is inscribed with the epithet "honored by Anubis, Lord of Kereret, Ankhef," and with a list of the intended contents: 6 axes, 6 adzes, 6 chisels, and 6 other bladed implements, perhaps saws. The list and actual inventory of tools, however, do not agree; it appears that an adz and ax have been added and a chisel and the six saws omitted.

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