Fragment of a Statue of Haremhab bearing a standard

Fragment of a Statue of Haremhab bearing a standard

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This fragment probably comes from a divine standard that was part of a standing statue of Haremhab, last king of Dynasty 18. The preserved inscription describes the king as "beloved of Thoth, Lord of Hermopolis, he who is in the midst of the Hare Nome." This suggests that the statue was made for the temple of Thoth at his cult center in Hermopolis (modern el-Ashmunein) which was capital of the ancient Egyptian province known as the Hare Nome.

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.