Scarab Inscribed for Hatshepsut

Scarab Inscribed for Hatshepsut

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This scarab was discovered in one of the foundation deposits along the front wall of the lower court of Hatshepsut's funerary temple at Deir el-Bahri. It's base is inscribed with her personal name (Hatshepsut). A similar version of the same inscription may be found on another scarab (27.3.166), but the backs of the two scarabs are quite different.

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.