Pendant: Bust of Isis

Pendant: Bust of Isis

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Isis is identifiable by her crown with plumes, horns and a sun disk. The knotted garment and corkscrew curls are often associated with Greco-Roman images of the goddess.

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.