Menat with royal name Wahibre

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The roundel of the menat depicts the Hathor emblem on top of the gold sign, which is flanked by uraei wearing crowns and holding shen rings; over the scene stretches the sky sign. On the handle the goddess Nebethetepet is depicted behind a column of hieroglyphs that read: the Young (?) God, Wahibre, beloved of Nebethetepet. Wahibre is a name of two 26th Dynasty pharaohs, Psamtik I and Apries. On the reverse is a two column inscription that names the donor Userkaf, who appears to be associated with cults in the southwestern Delta at Sakhebu and perhaps Kom Abu Billou.

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