Scene of Fishing and Fowling

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

At the right, the bud, flower and round leaf of lily plants float on a background of zigzag lines representing water . A large fish swims in the water. A flat space alongside the pond ending with a double edge indicates the rim of the pond. To the left of the scene, a large tilapia fish and a pintail duck are carried on a spear that is held by the figure whose head emerges just above the lower left bottom edge. This pool belongs to a scene of the king hunting as discussed by W. Raymond Johnson in the curatorial interpretation. The king, seated on a stool with the queen crouching at his feet, hunts in a in a wetland surrounding a small rectangular artificial pond. An attendant retrieves the game impaled on an arrow. This scene must have been a very large one in a temple or palace.

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