Lower part of a royal head

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This lower part of a face represents a member of the Amarna royal family. The wide and full lips and the lack of lines in the face suggest one of the princesses is depicted. The fragment may have come from the Great Aten Temple, like so many others in the collection, but it might also have come from another site such as the Great Palace or the Small Aten Temple, or elsewhere. Statuary in all the temples and palaces at the city of Amarna was hammered into small fragments by Akhenaten's successors.

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