Relief fragments of two sacred emblems

Relief fragments of two sacred emblems

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Old Kingdom temple inventories describe sacred pillars of gold that played a role in the festivals honoring various deities. The two pillars seen here resemble most closely the so-called Abydos fetish, an emblem of the place sacred to the great god Osiris. For other reliefs of Neferu, see 26.3.353* and 31.3.1.

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.