Torso of a Striding Draped Male Figure

Torso of a Striding Draped Male Figure

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This statue wears a costume especially popular in the Ptolemaic and early Roman Period: a sleeved tunic over which a long fringed skirt is wrapped, with its front edge visible between the legs of the figure, topped with a fringed shawl. The shawl covers the left arm and passes under the right, ending where it is gathered into the proper left fist. The sculptor has given special attention to the graceful ridges and hollows of the draped garment and to the fine anatomical modeling of the neck and right arm. Statues of this type often seem to have stood in front of temple pylons. There is reason to believe that the costume was connected with the hope for deification.

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.