Head from a Spoon in the form of a Swimming Girl

Head from a Spoon in the form of a Swimming Girl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cosmetic spoons in the shape of swimming girls were popular luxury goods in the New Kingdom. This exquisite travertine head, topped with an elaborately modeled wig of schist, incised to deliniate the individual locks, is all that is left of such a spoon (see 26.2.47for a complete example).

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.