Head of a Queen or Goddess

Head of a Queen or Goddess

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Preserved on this fragment is the head of a female wearing a vulture headress. This crown, which evokes the vulture goddess Nekhbet and also uses the hieroglyph that spells "mother," identifies the figure as a queen or a goddess.

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.