Drawing of a Ramesside King and Two Standing Figures

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Limestone flakes like this one were decorated with sketches, or inscribed with literary and funerary texts. This piece has two drawings of standing figures superimposed over the profile of a Ramesside king.

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