Maat?

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This statuette may represent the goddess Maat, who was the embodiment of cosmic order in Egyptian thought. In statuette form, Maat is generally shown in a crouched, seated position and often sits on an openwork plinth, rather than in the standing position shown here. Nevertheless, other standing examples are known and several features suggest that the statuette represents Maat; the fillet that ties at the back of the head is normally worn by Maat and the broken protrusion at the top of the head was probably a single feather, Maat’s signature attribute. Maat did not have a large cult of her own, but instead was often presented as an offering to other gods, and some preserved groupings of copper alloy statuettes show Maat seated in front of another deity in an offering tableau.

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