Maenad-head earrings

Maenad-head earrings

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Earrings with heads of maenads (Dionysus's female followers) are rare in Egypt but occur in the Levant and Cyprus. The form is late Hellenistic.

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.