Tomb Stela of Hetepsi

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hetepsi's stela was found in a pit for a burial in the general vicinity of the mastaba of Neferseshempepy, good name Senni, at Dendera, and her stela appears to be by the same hand as the decorations of that mastaba. Hetepsi bears the titles King's Sole Ornament and Priestess of Hathor Mistress of Dendera, and in her latter capacity she carries a sistrum in her hand.

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