Egyptian Art

The Museum's 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.

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    String of 12 Eye Beads
    From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period
    Glass, 600–200 BCE
    Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910   10.130.3034

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    Drinking Cup
    From Egypt, New Kingdom
    Glassy faience, gold; ca. 1479–1425 BCE
    Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926   26.7.1175

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Egyptian Collar

The design of an elaborately beaded collar from the Tomb of Wah is reinterpreted as a serpentine motif for The Met x Ann Gish collaboration.  

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    Broad Collar of Wah
    From Egypt, Middle Kingdom
    Faience, linen thread; ca. 1981–1975 BCE
    Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1940   40.3.2

Alyssum

Inspired by an Egyptian floral plaque, Alyssum's delicate, fringed flowers and grey leaves are embroidered onto a herringbone ground.

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    Floral plaque
    From Egypt, Ptolemaic Period–Roman Period
    Glass, 100 BCE–100 CE
    Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926   26.7.1252

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Embellished Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom

Inspired by the ancient jewelry and metalwork in The Met's Egyptian Art collection.

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    Jewelry Elements
    From Egypt, Middle Kingdom
    Gold, carnelian, lapis lazuli; ca. 1878–1805 BCE
    Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926   26.7.1309–.1312

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    Necklace
    From Egypt, New Kingdom
    Gold, carnelian; ca. 1550–1295 BCE
    Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917   17.190.1971

Egyptian Faience

Inspired by a faience panel from Egypt's OId Kingdom period, we reimagine the shades of azure in a jacquard with embroidered lines.

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    Wall tiles from the funerary apartments of King Djoser
    From Egypt, Old Kingdom
    Faience, ca. 2630–2611 BCE
    Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1948   48.160.1

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Qasaba

Inspired by the vast collection of papyrus, reed, and linen artifacts in the Egyptian Wing of The Met. Named for a famous cobblestone street in Cairo, Qasaba elicits the texture and tone of the stones of Egypt, even the hatch marks on the papyrus fragment shown here. 

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    Letter with hieratic inscription
    Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes (Deir el-Bahri); New Kingdom
    Papyrus, ink; ca. 1550–1295 B.C.
    Rogers Fund, 1927   27.3.561a, b