Floral Garland Fragments

Floral Garland Fragments

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

These fragments come from a floral collar (see 30.3.33a) made of persea leaves and lotus petals sewn with a double running stich over thin strips of palm leaf. It was found over the left breast of the wrapped mummy of Nauny, a member of the family of the High Priests of Amun who lived around 1050 B.C.

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.