Fragmentary dish with inscription for Hathor from Peteharsomtous

Fragmentary dish with inscription for Hathor from Peteharsomtous

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This fragment of a small silver dish bears an inscription to Hathor of Dendera. The dedicator was one Peteharsomtus whose father's name is cut off at the break. The inscription is duplicated on a silver bottle.in the museum's collection.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fragmentary dish with inscription for Hathor from PeteharsomtousFragmentary dish with inscription for Hathor from PeteharsomtousFragmentary dish with inscription for Hathor from PeteharsomtousFragmentary dish with inscription for Hathor from PeteharsomtousFragmentary dish with inscription for Hathor from Peteharsomtous

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.