Fragment of an ivory tag

Fragment of an ivory tag

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Found near an ivory furniture leg, a second label, and two stone vessels, this tag most likely would have been used to label one of the commodities placed in the king's tomb. Among the hieroglyphs visible here is a "ib" sign, meaning heart; this sign appears in a queenly title and may indicate some connection to a royal wife.

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.