Decorative band perhaps from a shrine with the name of Ptolemy X

Decorative band perhaps from a shrine with the name of Ptolemy X

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This silver strip with the throne name of Ptolemy X Alexander i must have fitted onto another item, probably a shrine or temple furnishing. The cartouche records the throne name of Ptolemy X: "The heir of the Beneficient God and the Beneficient Goddess and female Re, who is the chosen of Ptah, who brings forth the order of Re, the living sacred image of Amun." The female Re was his mother Cleopatra III, who had replaced her older son with Ptolemy X. Ptolemy X eventually had her killed, and was then overthrown by the resurgent Ptolemy IX. The dynastic strife paralleled continuing internal strife in the country, with eventual heavy-handed suppression of the Theban region.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Decorative band perhaps from a shrine with the name of Ptolemy XDecorative band perhaps from a shrine with the name of Ptolemy XDecorative band perhaps from a shrine with the name of Ptolemy XDecorative band perhaps from a shrine with the name of Ptolemy XDecorative band perhaps from a shrine with the name of Ptolemy X

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.