Head and Torso from a Male Swimmer Holding a Spoon

Head and Torso from a Male Swimmer Holding a Spoon

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This unusual piece is a fragment from a small 'swimmer spoon.' Atypically the swimmer is male. The spoon bears a general typological resemblance to a male swimmer in the Louvre considered to date to the Third Intermediate Period, but, while the date is likely to be the same, the features and treatment of hair on this spoon suggests to specialists that it is a foreign production.

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.