Faience Sistrum Inscribed with the Name of Ptolemy I

Faience Sistrum Inscribed with the Name of Ptolemy I

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sistra were musical instruments associated especially with the cult of great goddesses, including Hathor, Isis, Bastet, and others. Faience examples bearing a royal name appear to have been temple offerings. Link to a blog post Petrified Sound and Digital Color: A Hathor Column in the New Ptolemaic Galleries

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.