Comb

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This comb and two others (16.1.428, 16.10.430) were found in the remains of an anthropoid (human-shaped) coffin that was excavated by the Museum's Egyptian Expedition in 1916. Although the dimensions vary slightly, all three have shape that is typical of the late-Seventeenth and early-Eighteenth Dynasties. For a similar comb from the same time-period, but made of wood, see 26.7.1448. The combs belonged to the same burial as several other objects in the Museum's collection. These include a small ivory cosmetic box (16.10.425), two pottery vessels (16.10.426–.427, three jars of Egyptian alabaster (16.10.421, .423–.424), and another made of serpentine (16.10.422).

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art