Head of a Man with a Round Wig

Head of a Man with a Round Wig

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This fragment depicts a man wearing a short hairstyle, rather similar to the bowl-like style seen on a few three-dimensional male representations from the 17th Dynasty to the very early 18th Dynasty. The statuette was originally supported by a round-ended back pillar. There are traces of paint across the surface, black on the hair and red on the face – two colors that are traditionally associated with hair and male complexion in ancient Egypt.

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.