Upper half of a woman from a pair or group statue

Upper half of a woman from a pair or group statue

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Preserved is the top part of a woman with a long, striated tripartite wig and prominent large ears. Her upper right arm (the lower part is missing) is held against the side of her torso. Only a small part of her upper left arm is preserved, but the remains extend horizontally, which indicates that her arm was placed around another person and that this piece is part of a pair or group statue. The same is shown by the position of a thick back support that only begins in the center of the figure and then extends to the woman’s proper left side.

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.