Sealing naming Nesisti, a priest in the cult of Arsinoe II and her sister Philotera

Sealing naming Nesisti, a priest in the cult of Arsinoe II and her sister Philotera

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Arsinoe II was divinized on her death, and a cult to her deceased sister Philotera was maintained alongside hers at least at Memphis for a certain period. This fragile unfired sealing from a papyrus names an official and priest of the two women. Recently a specialist has read the name of the priest Nesisti on the seal along with the epithet Epiphanes applied to Ptolemy V and his wife Cleopatra I, revealing the seaing dates to the beginning of the second century B.C. The priest appears to be one Nesisti who was a member of the family that held the high priesthood of Ptah at Memphis during the Ptolemaic Dynasty.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sealing naming Nesisti, a priest in the cult of Arsinoe II and her sister PhiloteraSealing naming Nesisti, a priest in the cult of Arsinoe II and her sister PhiloteraSealing naming Nesisti, a priest in the cult of Arsinoe II and her sister PhiloteraSealing naming Nesisti, a priest in the cult of Arsinoe II and her sister PhiloteraSealing naming Nesisti, a priest in the cult of Arsinoe II and her sister Philotera

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.