Head of an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

Head of an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Four Osiride figures of Hatshepsut stood in the corners of the sanctuary of Amun in her funerary temple at Deir el-Bahri. This head, which wears the Double Crown symbolizing the union of Upper and Lower Egypt, belonged to the figure in the northeast corner. Two other heads in the Museum's collection (31.3.154 and 31.3.155) wear the White Crown of Upper Egypt and come from the southern end of the sanctuary.

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.