Incomplete figure in draped costume

Incomplete figure in draped costume

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This enigmatic piece has not yet been fully explained. It was probably a sculptor's model: it lacks a back pillar, no head or feet were intended, and the arms were treated in a rudimentary fashion. The artist's interest appears to have been in the garment rather than the body beneath. This may be the earliest three-dimensional version of a costume that became popular in the Ptolemaic Period.

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.