Broad Collar with Falcon-Head Terminals

Broad Collar with Falcon-Head Terminals

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This collar with falcon-head terminals decorated the chest of a woman's mummy. Since the beginning of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2649 B.C.), a broad collar customarily adorned Egyptian mummies. The vulture pectoral (26.8.105) that probably belongs to the same burial was also a traditional funerary emblem.

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.