6 arrows with stone tips

6 arrows with stone tips

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The arrows have flint chips embedded in their tips with pitch, and there are traces of feathers at the notched ends. They would have been used with a longbows such as 36.3.211.


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.