Menat with the Heads of the Deities Shu and Tefnut

664-380 BC (Late Period)

5.5 cm 11.2 cm 2.1 cm

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In rituals for the gods, special instruments were used by priests and priestesses to invoke the deities or to perform rituals before them. One of the most important instruments was the Menat, a counterweight that held elaborate beaded collars in place, used also as a noise-mak...

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Sheik of the Pyramids, Egypt [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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