Egypt Museum

early dynastic period

Ivory Statuette of a King

Carved in lustrous ivory, this remarkable statuette represents a beardless king wearing the White Crown of Upper Egypt, its weight seemingly pressing down upon his prominent ears. Cloaked in the short, stiff robe of the Heb-Sed festival, his posture conveys not youthful vigour but a striking sense of age; his shoulders stoop, his neck thrusts...

Early Dynastic Mother & Child

This diminutive yet evocative object, which the Met Museum has listed simply as “A Woman and Her Child“, hails from the very dawn of the Ancient Egyptian Dynastic Period, c. 3100–2900 B.C., known as the 1st Dynasty. Discovered at Abydos, one of Ancient Egypt’s most sacred sites and a focal point of royal and religious...