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

This small sculpture represents the top section of a female, who is wearing the so called Hathor-wig. The hair is beautifully shown as two voluminous masses that curve from the top of her head around her ears and onto the front, where they fall onto the chest and end in two thick curls (the right one is damaged). A third section of hair, only visible in the back, is situated underneath and falls straight onto the woman's back. Her ears are extremely large. The woman wears a tight dress with straps that run across her breasts. On her right side is a break in the area of her shoulder. However, just enough is preserved that shows that something was situated in this area, which shows that the woman was originally part of a pair or group statue.

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.