Fragment of a bowl

Fragment of a bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The interior of this elaborate bowl is carved with the figure of a woman, perhaps the goddess Isis, supporting a smaller standing figure, possibly her son Horus, who is represented naked with his finger to his mouth in a pose traditionally associated with childhood. On the center of the exterior is a rosette surrounded by laurel wreath, grape vine, and loop borders. Small dishes of this type were particularly popular in Upper Egypt during the Roman period.

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.