Necklace with Amulets

Necklace with Amulets

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This string of beads and amulets was found in the same deposit with a longer string and a well preserved menat necklace. The amulets include several depictions of the god Bes and the goddess Taweret, a standing goddess who may be Nut or Isis, and two scarab beetles.

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.