Scarab of Seti II

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The underside of the scarab is decorated with two royal cartouches, each surmounted by sun disk flanked by ostrich feathers. The cartouches contain the prenomen and nomen of Seti II, Userkheperre-meramun Seti-merneptah. Only few seals are known on which both names appear together and, moreover, most of these are plaques.

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