Model boat

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This model funerary boat was composed in modern times from ancient elements. In the center is a mummy on a canopied bier with a leopard skin spread on its roof. The deceased is accompanied by two female mourners and two priests. The latter are dressed in leopard-skin garments that indicate their office. One priest of them rasps an incense burner while the second priest holds an open scroll inscribed with a request for funerary offerings on behalf of a man named Ukhhotep.

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