Marsh-Bowl of Rennefer

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The interior of this bowl is decorated with a central pool of water from which lotus blossoms and buds extend. Just below the rim are six water birds and two tilapia fish. The bowl is one of three found in the coffin of Rennofer, wife of Neferkhawt, a royal scribe of the court of Hatshepsut (see also 35.3.77).

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