Funerary Figure of Akhenaten

Funerary Figure of Akhenaten

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Although it lacks an inscription, this shabti is easily recognizable as Akhenaten. The nemes headcloth and the crook and flail shown on this example are more traditional shabti attributes than the khat headcloth and the ankh hieroglyphs found on other funerary figures of this king (see 47.57.2 and 66.99.37).

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.