Locations: Deir el Nawahid, Egypt

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    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
  • 2nd Floor
    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
  • 3rd Floor
    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
  • 4th Floor
    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
  • 5th Floor
    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Dance Headdress (Ci-wara Kun)

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Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Canopic Jar and Cover of Lady Senebtisi

    Priests separately mummified the stomach, liver, lungs, and intestines, to be placed in jars, in the most expensive method of mummification ...

     

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    Deir el Nawahid, Egypt

    Hedgehog
    ca. 1938-1700 B.C.E.
    Hedgehog
    Headrest of Shemai
    ca. 2288-2170 B.C.E.
    Headrest of Shemai
    Bottle
    ca. 945 B.C.E. - 718 B.C.E.
    Bottle