Title: Counterweight of a <em>menit</em> necklace with an image of Bastet nursing King Taharqo
Object type: Menat, Taharqo nursed by the lion-headed goddess Bastet
Date: ca. 690–664 BCE
Period: Third Intermediate Period, Kushite Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 25
Reign: reign of Taharqo
Medium: Faience
Dimensions: H. 9.6 × W. 4.3 × Th. 0.9 cm (3 3/4 × 1 11/16 × 3/8 in.)
Credit line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
Geography: Possibly from     Nubia     
Department: Egyptian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Birds, term: Kings, term: Sekhmet, term: Snakes