Inscribed Linen of Satiyet

Inscribed Linen of Satiyet

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This text concerns the Khoiak Festival, with the particulars under study. The festival commemorates the death and rebirth of Osiris by sowing seeds in a molded earthen figure of Osiris, watering the seeds until germination, and then burying this figure. The ceremony took place just as the inundation waters receded, when new crops could be sown. Although the figures might take somewhat different forms, temples throughout the country celebrated the festival.

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.