Beaded Cuff Bracelet

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This bracelet was strung according to the position the parts were found in, albeit with restored dividers because of the bad condition of the originals. It was found with other pieces of jewelry in the plundered chamber reached by a shaft in the portico of a rock-cut tomb in the Asasif section of the Theban necropolis. Among the finds were parts of a rectangular wooden coffin with green hieroglyphs on a yellow background as well as a few remains of one or more model wooden boat(s), three scarabs (13.180.8–.10), two anhydrite toilet vessels (13.180.19a–c, .20) and a group of jewelry items (13.180.1–.18a–l) striking for their extensive use of silver. Dates that can be ascertained by stylistic comparisons to some of the objects range from the late Middle Kingdom (ca. 1850-1700 B.C.) to the late Second Intermediate Period (ca. 1580–1550 B.C.). A number of clay pots (28.3.239- .241 (D), now in the Oriental Institute Museum Chicago), from the area of the tomb but not with certainty identified as found inside the shaft and chamber from which the jewelry was obtained, date to the late Second Intermediate Period.

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.

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