Fragment with working traces

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This amorphous fragment from the statuary dump outside the Great Aten Temple has two hammered faces, one of which is considerably smoothed. It also has what appear to be the remains of drill channels. One drilled partly open channel holds in its lower end the remains of a bronze tubular drill and the corundum-containing abrasive used with it. Link to a blog about stoneworking in ancient Egypt Hidden Secrets of Ancient Egyptian Technology

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