Brush

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Made of grass lashed together with strips of palm leaf, this brush was found inside a large pot similar in shape to 28.3.170. This was part of an embalmers' cache made up of a rectangular wood coffin and more than 30 pots full of various materials that had been used for mummification. This particular jar also contained broken wreaths, two additional grass brushes tied with grass; oily potsherds; clean straw; and clean grass.

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