Menat Counterpoise with an Image of Bastet?

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Skilled faience artists of the Third Intermediate Period produced elaborate openwork spacers, beads, and even large menats. This fragment is the upper part of a faience menat, a menat roundel at the bottom being broken away. A lioness goddess is depicted beneath a shrine whose roof comprises a a uraeus frieze and winged sundisk mounted on by pillars formed by the wadj sign. The goddess wears a sun disk, holds an ankh, and, in her other hand, holds another wadj-scepter topped by an inscription and a similar wadj with inscription may be seen behind her. A third inscription may be seen at her feet. The inscriptions are barely readable, as often on these small objects, but appear to say "words spoken by Bastet", although Wadjet is another possibility.

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