Seven Amulets on a String of Beads

Seven Amulets on a String of Beads

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

These amulets were found together in a pot that was in the same house as the Menat necklace 11.215.450. They were strung together with the small blue beads to keep them together.

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.