Glass Fragment

Glass Fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This lump of dark blue glass was found with votive objects were probably presented to the goddess Hathor in her chapel at Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Bahri. After these offerings had served their purpose they were discarded in vast quantities in various dumps near the temple where they were found by modern excavators.

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.