Early Dynastic Mother & Child - Egypt Museum

Early Dynastic Mother & Child - Egypt Museum

Met Museum. 03.4.16 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 power, this modest figurine was unearthed near the Osiris temple by the Egypt Exploration Fund during their 1…