Part of an elaborate roof or canopy - see 26.3.354-2

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This group of relief fragments comes from the entrance passage of the tomb of Khety, the first recorded royal treasurer (“overseer of what is sealed”) of Mentuhotep II. Depicted here is part of a canopy under which Khety was shown seated, probably part of a magnificent carrying chair (see fig. 1) in which he would have been ferried around his estate. In funerary contexts, these scenes could represent the tomb owner’s visits to the site on which his mortuary monument was being constructed. On a more symbolic level, they could also represent the funeral itself, and thus magically ensure the proper performance of this essential ritual. See 26.3.354-2-related.

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