Relief with cartouches of Psammuthis

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

After the long Persian domination, the desire for building and renovation was strongly manifested in the 29th dynasty even before the grand temple programs of the 30th dynasty. Psammuthis only reigned for one year, and may have been a southern challenger to the son of his predecessor Nepherites. Even so, he appears to have maintained in Thebes a program of growth and building first envisioned by his predecessor Nepherities and reaching its culmination in the reign of his successor Achoris. This block was obtained in Luxor and is very similar to one oriented in the opposite direction that had been reused in a village near Luxor and was acquired by Lepsius for Berlin . It has been conjectured to come from the restoration of the magazine for offerings to the south of the Sacred Lake at Karnak that was partly and perhaps wholly the work of Psammuthis. The block shows the enthroned god Khonsu to the right extending life to the Horus-name and nomen of Psammuthis, followed by the standard phrase "given all life, all joy, forever."

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