Ten-week paid fall- and spring-semester internships at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters for students currently enrolled in degree-granting programs or recent graduates.
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In ancient Egypt, objects created with faience were considered magical, filled with the undying shimmer of the sun, and imbued with the powers of rebirth.
Faience may have been developed to simulate highly prized and rare semi-precious
Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain Credit Line: The Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B.
Curator Adela Oppenheim focuses on the architecture of The Temple of Dendur as a setting for the cultic worship of Isis.
The brothers were believed to have drowned in the Nile, a manner of death that could
Seymour Fund and Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 1997 Object Number: 1997.216a, b
Classification: Ceramics Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1917 Object Number: 17.118.16a, b
Three conservators at The Met share what they discovered when they examined William the hippo up close.
objects, we’d only admired William through a glass case, so it was exciting to have
Pierre Leven, Cologne (until 1853); his sale, J.M. Heberlé, Cologne, October 4, 1853, lot 137 (to Soltykov); Prince Alexei Soltykoff, Paris (1853–d. 1859); by descent to his brother, Prince Petr Soltykov, Paris (1859–61; his sale, Drouot, Paris, April 1961, lot 835,to Russel); Mr
Paris, 1859. ill. pl. 4 (b/w). Collinot, Eugène, and Adalbert de Beaumont.
Inscription: (on each corner and center): A [image of a knot] E [reversed] (unidentified)(on dog collar; twice): AE(on dog collar bearing arms; twice): AMarking: Arms (on dog collar on right): Quarterly, 1 and 4, barry of six or and azure, the first two bars debruised by three roses gules, seeded proper; 2 and 3, or, three escutcheons gules
Striking differences in dimension and composition have prompted scholars to question
