Cylinder, perhaps from a ceremonial whip

Cylinder, perhaps from a ceremonial whip

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This wooden cylinder may come from a ceremonial flail of the type held by kings and buried with nobles (see 12.183.15a–g). Two hieroglyphs, which could be read as Sab or Geb, are incised on the surface; these were once filled with blue paste.

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.