Tomb Ceiling Fragment (Stars)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Jan 1959
name: label: Donor Name
content: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
label: Site Name
content: Lahun (El Lahun)
notes: label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Ceiling fragment, c. 1850 BC. Starry skies painted on the ceiling of an elite Egyptian's tomb opened the heavens to the deceased, allowing him to join the gods as one of the stars.
label: Notes
content: From card: "From Lahun, XII Dynasty, gift of Egypitan [sic, Egyptian] Research Account, 1914, limestone. Exhibit, Hall 26, 1976."
label: Notes
content: Presumably excavated in 1914 by the British School of Archaeology in Egypt (BSAE) which was established by Flinders Petrie.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Mar 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fayum District (Fayyum, Faiyum), Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Egyptian, Middle Kingdom Period, Dynasty XII
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 223500
label: USNM Number
content: A423007-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Relief