Right eye and brow from head of king in the 'blue' crown

Right eye and brow from head of king in the 'blue' crown

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A narrowed banded eye evoking a trance-like gaze is preserved on this fragment of a statuary. The fragment is carved in the indurated limestone that is so characteristic of the Amarna temples. From the fragment it is not possible to say whether Akhenaten or Nefertiti is actually represented, and often even much larger fragments pose problems of identification since the king and queen were closely twinned. Link to a blog about stoneworking in ancient Egypt Hidden Secrets of Ancient Egyptian Technology

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Right eye and brow from head of king in the 'blue' crownRight eye and brow from head of king in the 'blue' crownRight eye and brow from head of king in the 'blue' crownRight eye and brow from head of king in the 'blue' crownRight eye and brow from head of king in the 'blue' crown

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.