Basket with Lid

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Found buried near a child, this small basket of palm fiber contained assorted trinkets: strings of shells, beads, and amulets of various materials; a faience finger ring; glass stud; a gold-mounted steatite scaraboid; a ball of mud containing human hair; a silver amulet wrapped in scrap of linen; two fragments of knotted string, the longer one with hair tied on one end;and a flake of red stone. The basket itself was made of palm fiber and split reeds, with decorations of red and brown patches around the edges of the lid and the mouth. The lid was fastened to the basket on opposite sides of the mouth with linen strings which were twisted together and tied into the center of the lid.

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