Falcon head, fitting from furniture or shrine

Falcon head, fitting from furniture or shrine

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This falcon head is an attachment that would have been part of a larger, more imposing piece of cult equipment, possibly part of a piece of furniture, a shrine..

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.