Instrument: Naos Sistrum
![Rattle-like instrument in turquoise color with Egyptian hieroglyphs on the handle, which is topped by a stylized head. Above the head, the empty rectangular frame would have originally held the noise-making portion of the instrument.](https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/ballets-russes/objects/99/@@images/9f4c1aa7-4070-495d-b6f4-c06bf18ad737.jpeg)
Instrument: Naos Sistrum
- Description:
- Naos Sistrum with the Name of Apries
- Artist:
- Artist Unknown
- Medium:
- Faience
- Dimensions:
- H. 34.7 cm; W. 8.5 cm; D. 4.2 cm
- Context:
- Egypt
- Date:
- Late Period, Saite, Dynasty 26, Reign of Apries, 589–570 BCE
- Inventory Number:
- 17.190.1959
- Lender:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Credit:
- Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
CC0 1.0, Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art