Funerary Tablet of Horpaa, priest at Hermopolis and son of Djehutyhor

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This large stone tablet has the form of a label with a perforation for attachment . It was inscribed for Horpaa, who bears important priestly titles associated with Thoth of Hermpolis and who was the son of Djehutyhor who also had important priestly offices at Hermopolis. The text shows a sequence of short religious phrases, some of which are extracted from the Book of Traversing Eternity.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art