Hairpin Decorated with a Cobra

Hairpin Decorated with a Cobra

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This ivory hair pin is decorated with the image of a uraeus cobra wearing a sun disk on its head. The snake is shown with its hood open, ready to strike. Its tail is coiled around the end of the pin.

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.