Razor

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This razor is a type that was in use during the early Eighteenth Dynasty. It has two sharpened edges that were described as "still keen" by the excavator, Howard Carter, who also said that the ancient finger-marks were still visible upon its polished surface. The razor is part of a set of cosmetic implements (26.7.837a–d) that included a mirror, tweezers, a whetstone, and a kohl tube (26.7.1447), all found in a rush basket.

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