Coffin of Harmose

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Finely crafted of pinewood and painted in brilliant colors, the anthropoid coffin of the singer Hormose was discovered in the limestone chip dumped on the slope below Senenmut's tomb chapel (TT 71). The face is overlaid with gold foil and the eyes are carved of alabaster and obsidian set into ebony sockets. Next to the coffin lay Hormose's lute, now in Cairo, and two forked wooden staves, one of which is tipped with a bronze ferrule (36.3.167, .268).

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