Jewelry Elements

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ten units of triplex beads, four of which have bivalve shells pendant from them. Ball beads of gold and carnelian or lapis lazuli have been strung between the shells. These are connected stylistically with jewelry found by Jacques de Morgan in the 1890s in the pyramid of Senwosret III at Dahshur and likely beloged to princess or queen.

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