Tomb Of Meketre: Museum Report

My museum trip at the Metropolitan started off with me visiting the Egypt Section first. My first stop in this section was to look for the “Ancient Models from the Tomb of Meketre.” Which I found in gallery 105. Most of the information I needed was on the wall. I found out that instead of them depicting their daily life in Egypt when they lived, but items that would sustain the deceased in the afterlife. I continued to walk and found the mummy of Kharushere which was located in gallery 126. Kharushere was a male mummy who lived between the ages of 30-35 during the intermediate period, dynasty 22 (around 825–712 BCE). Continuing my observation to the Temple of Dunbar, I was unable to successfully visit the inside because it was closed for some …show more content…
They think the figure represents Themis, the goddess associated with custom and law. This was sculpted around the 2nd half of the 4th century B.C. The material used in the sculpture is marble. I chose this sculpture because it did not have a head or hands, but to me had a lot of details in the garments from the wrinkles, and the metal buttons that were there but are no longer. I was able to find parts of a table, which was the table support (Marble Trapezophoros). It was used as one end of the table to support the heavy upper. It was used in the late republican period which was around the 1st century B.C. this relates to our daily lives because everyone has a table in there house to eat around and share a meal with your family. This shows that traditions being pasted down. As I continued my findings, a nude sculpture of Aphrodite caught my eyes. The time period it from is the Roman, Imperial between 1st and 2nd century A.D. the artist who created this work was a sculptor named Praxiteles. To me the body looked like an average body of a young lady. I do think woman back then looked like this, I believe this because most of the time you had to walk places, they didn’t have all the processed food we have …show more content…
So I pulled out my map and looked around for it. I found myself walking up a flight of stairs and making my way to gallery 604 after walking through a couple of doors and halls. I found gallery 604 and in the middle of the room there was a big crest. Which was the Medici Family Crest made from tempera, silver and gold on wood. The Medici family was the first attained wealth and political power in Florence, Italy around the 13 century which was much of the renaissance era. With the great accomplishments of the commerce and banking. When Cosimo de’ Medici came into power in 1434. The family had a huge fascination with art and humanity which made Italy the source of the renaissance. The family dynasty ended after 3 centuries after the last Medici did without having a male heir in