Faience Sistrum Inscribed with the Name of Ptolemy I

Ptolemaic Period

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 134

Sistra were musical instruments associated especially with the cult of great goddesses, including Hathor, Isis, Bastet, and others. Faience examples bearing a royal name appear to have been temple offerings.

Link to a blog post
Petrified Sound and Digital Color: A Hathor Column in the New Ptolemaic Galleries

Faience Sistrum Inscribed with the Name of Ptolemy I, Faience

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