Box-form ornament with granulation and filagree

Box-form ornament with granulation and filagree

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This box with its elaborate decoration has a circular opening in the center of the top filled with an elaborate flower. Two holes in the sides allow it to be attached to a chain. The extensive granulation indicates it is probably pre-Ptolemaic.

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.