Fish pendant

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This fish pendant was probably originally worn as a hair ornament and depicts a Synodontis batensoda, a type of catfish that often swims upside down very close to the surface and is hence also called the "upside-down catfish." Only some of its fins are preserved in this example. For the meaning of such fish pendants see the object information for 09.180.1182.

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