Scarab Inscribed With the Name Nefertari

Scarab Inscribed With the Name Nefertari

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This scarab displays typical early 18th Dynasty features, including a roundish lined back and a lunate head. The base is inscribed with the name Nefertari, which almost certainly refers to Queen Ahmose-Nefertari, wife of Ahmose and mother of Amenhotep I. Her name is frequently attested on scarabs displaying distinctive early 18th Dynasty features, occasionally with the title "God's Wife."

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.