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Sistrum in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2008

Sistrum in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2008
Sistrum
1st-2nd century AD
Bronze

Accession # 19.5

A mother cat and her young top the arc of this sistrum, and the cross-wires terminate with duck heads. Sistra very much like this one have been excavated in Italy.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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