Head of a Goddess(?)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This head certainly represents a goddess as she wears the traditional simple tripartite wig. Some crown or element sat on her head, and an estension of stone to the right of the head points to the fact she was part of a group, perhaps alongside a male god or, alternatively on one side of a king with a male god on the other. The eyes are strikingly narrow. A date to the reign of the post-Amarna kings Aya or Haremhab seems most likely.

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