Necklace counterpoise with aegis of Sakhmet

Necklace counterpoise with aegis of Sakhmet

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

At the top of this menat, or necklace counterpoise, is the head of a lion-headed goddess, wearing a broad collar and crowned with a sun disk. A relief scene showing a lion-headed goddess seated on a throne and holding a papyrus scepter decorates the menat’s center section. This part is flanked on each side by a cobra wearing the Upper Egyptian crown. The bottom section features a rosette.

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.