Snake bracelet for a child

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Snake bracelets are known in the eastern Mediterranean and Greece from the 8th-7th centuries BC. They only appear in Egypt with the Hellenistic Period, and then continue to be found in the Roman Period.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art