Relief depicting the head of a scribe

Relief depicting the head of a scribe

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This regularly shaped piece of relief-decorated limestone was most probably inserted into a larger block in order to repair an irregularity or damaged area. Preserved is the face of a scribe who has tucked his writing brush behind his ear.

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.