Small Child in a Sling

Small Child in a Sling

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This fragment shows a small child being carried in a cloth sling. It was probably part of a figure vase depicting a seated or standing woman carrying the child high on her back.

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.