High relief inlay fragment, frontal bust of a god in a feather garment and holding a scepter

High relief inlay fragment, frontal bust of a god in a feather garment and holding a scepter

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Monochrome blue glass has been fused with three patterns of mosaic glass: twisted blue and yellow form a staff, another pattern forms a broad collar, and a feather pattern represents a god's garment..

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

High relief inlay fragment, frontal bust of a god in a feather garment and holding a scepterHigh relief inlay fragment, frontal bust of a god in a feather garment and holding a scepterHigh relief inlay fragment, frontal bust of a god in a feather garment and holding a scepterHigh relief inlay fragment, frontal bust of a god in a feather garment and holding a scepterHigh relief inlay fragment, frontal bust of a god in a feather garment and holding a scepter

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.