Relief of an attendant raising a necklace in front of a pole-like image

Relief of an attendant raising a necklace in front of a pole-like image

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This fragment shows that rows of attendants (see 26.3.353-1 and 26.3.353-3) were not the only theme depicted in raised relief on the right hand wall of the passage into Neferu's tomb. In front of the remains of a woman holding a necklace, we see a polelike entity that seems to be topped by a wig, perhaps an abstracted, sacred image. See also 26.3.353* and 31.3.1.

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.