Inlay Depicting a Falcon with Spread Wings

Inlay Depicting a Falcon with Spread Wings

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This falcon with spread wings holding a shen ring - on parly preserved here - represents the god Horus Behdety. The figure of this god generally hovers protectively over the head of a king.

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.