Jewelry chest of Sithathoryunet

Jewelry chest of Sithathoryunet

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Because the original wood of Sithathoryunet’s boxes had decayed, they were reconstructed in the Metropolitan Museum based on the detailed notes of the excavator Guy Brunton. The gold djed pillars on the sides are symbols of the funerary god Osiris as well as the word for stability. The emblems on the lid belong to Hathor, the goddess of beauty, making them appropriate symbols for a cosmetic box.

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.