Pair Statue of Amenemhat and Ahmose-Baketamun

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This pair statue depicts a man named Amenemhat and his wife, Baketamun. The deities invoked in the inscription are all from the region of Aswan: Khnum, god of the first cataract; Anuket, goddess of the southern end of the cataract; and Satis, Mistress of Elephantine and daughter of Khnum. This suggests Amenemhat was from Aswan, at the southern border of Egypt.

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