82nd & Fifth: Ptah

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Video

Mark Cartwright
by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
published on 07 February 2016

http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/idolized

Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/cult-image-of-the-god-ptah-egypt-2007.24

"This piece spoke to me when I realized, you don't need a single written word, three thousand years later, we can understand the same language."

82nd & Fifth invites 100 curators from across the Museum to talk about 100 works of art that changed the way they see the world.

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