
Attachment in the form of the head of a goddess wearing the double crown
An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art
The attachment head of the goddess Mut, Amun’s consort, wears a double crown. The crown is symbolic of a unified Egypt, and was perhaps worn by Mut as transferred from the concept of Amun as a 'national' god. The lower element of the crown, traditionally red, is here covered in gold leaf, as the Egyptians associated gold with red. The crown’s traditionally white upper element is covered with electrum leaf, paler in hue and presumably intended to signify white.
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.