Statue of Khentika with Shaved Head

Statue of Khentika with Shaved Head

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The prayers for offering incised on the long kilt invoke the funerary god Ptah-Sokar and the deified king Snefru of the early Fourth dynasty. The high-waisted kilt and the shaved head are typical features of Thirteenth Dynasty statuary.

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.