Spirally twisted tubular armlet with one goose-head terminal preserved

Spirally twisted tubular armlet with one goose-head terminal preserved

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The jewel is a spirally twisted hoop with a goose-head terminal. The feathers of the goose are worked at the ends of the hoops just before the heads at the terminals. Size suggests these are armlets, though it has also been suggested they might be anklets.


Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Spirally twisted tubular armlet with one goose-head terminal preservedSpirally twisted tubular armlet with one goose-head terminal preservedSpirally twisted tubular armlet with one goose-head terminal preservedSpirally twisted tubular armlet with one goose-head terminal preservedSpirally twisted tubular armlet with one goose-head terminal preserved

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.