Anklet

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This anklet is made from cylindrical faience beads and forms a pair with 22.1.257. It is part of a faience jewelry set that also included a broad collar (see 22.1.1632) and at least one armlet. When the anklets were excavated, the ancient string had deteriorated, and the archaeologists restrung the beads on modern string.

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