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Plaque Representing an Egyptian Kiosk in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2010

Plaque Representing an Egyptian Kiosk in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2010
Plaque Representing an Egyptian Kiosk (open shrine)
1st-2nd century AD
Bronze

Accession # 23.6.25

Columns with bell-shaped capitals support the barrel roof of the kiosk. Isis (?) towers over an open-lintel doorway surmounted by lions or perhaps cats.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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