Inlay depicting the goddess Isis

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This inlay depicts a goddess wearing a tight sheath dress and elaborate headgear. The latter consists of a vulture headdress on which is set a modius of rearing cobras topped with cow corns and a sundisk. In the Late Period and the Ptolemaic Period, the goddesses Isis (the sister-wife of Osiris) is often depicted in this fashion; the goddess Hathor could also be represented with this headdress.

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