Cowroid Set in a Ring Bezel

Cowroid Set in a Ring Bezel

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This ring bezel contains a cowrie-shaped amulet. The heraldic design inscribed on its base includes an ankh hieroglyph (life) protected by a falcon with outspread wings. Two bezels were found among the hand bones of an unidentified children who was buried in the tomb of Hatnefer (see 36.3.1 and 36.3.14)).

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.