Small Round Lidded Basket

Small Round Lidded Basket

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This small, round basket is made of halfa grass coils with the design created using grass dyed black and red. The linen cord at the top is probably there to help remove the tightly fitting lid. The basket may have held jewelry originally, but contained only one blue faience bead when it was opened. The basket was found inside another basket (36.3.59) from Hatnefer's tomb (36.3.1).

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.