Fragment of a faience plaque with inscription

Fragment of a faience plaque with inscription

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This lower part of a plaque is inscribed on both sides with kheperu, which is enclosed in a rectangle. The top of the rectangle is missing and could have contained two djed signs, forming the Horus name of King Khendjer.

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.