This group of three gold Egyptian statues of Gods is amazing! You know why? Because these statues are only 3 and 9/16 inches high! When I saw the announcement from the Metropolitan Museum of Art about the exhibition they are in, I assumed they were 3 or 4 feet tall! What a surpise to find these detailed tiny figures in a glass case that I needed a closeup lens to photograph. The exhibit is called "Divine Egypt" and is about the images associated with the most important deities in ancient Egypt's massive numbers of gods. There are 250 works of art in this exhibition! The detail is so amazing that I have included another photograph, below, so you can see these three statues much closer. Please click on each photo because I have posted a larger image that will show you more detail.
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There is so much detail in these tiny sculptures, it so hard for me to believe they are less than four inches tall. Mind boggling!
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