Stela of Amenemopet, a Priest of Senwosret I

Stela of Amenemopet, a Priest of Senwosret I

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A man named Amenemopet dedicated this stela to members of his family. His father, Pahur, and mother, Mery, are seated at the upper left and receive offerings from Amenemopet. Behind Mery's chair is another son whose name is not preserved. On the lower half of the stela, Amenemopet offers to another male relative whose name is not preserved. Both Amenemopet and his father were priests who attended to the funerary cult of Senwosret I, a Middle Kingdom ruler who had lived some 500 years earlier.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.