Scarab

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The underside of this scarab depicts two standing feline-headed goddesses. Both heads seem to be that of a lioness. They stand opposite each other and each holds a papyrus scepter in front. The goddess on the left has a rearing cobra on her head, while the one on the right shows a sundisk with a cobra. In the center above them is a sundisk and below them is a neb-hieroglyph. Several goddesses are known that can be depicted with a lion’s head and a sundisk and/or uraeus. The identification of these two goddesses is therefore unclear.

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