Funerary Cone of Meryremetjef (Mery-remetjef) and His Wife Mut

Funerary Cone of Meryremetjef (Mery-remetjef) and His Wife Mut

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This cone has the impression of a stamp seal inscribed for a sailor of the high priest of the god Amun named Mery-remetjef and his wife, the house mestress Mut. For another example of this impression see 30.6.173 and for a drawing see http://www.funerarycones.com/, number 55.


Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Funerary Cone of Meryremetjef (Mery-remetjef) and His Wife MutFunerary Cone of Meryremetjef (Mery-remetjef) and His Wife MutFunerary Cone of Meryremetjef (Mery-remetjef) and His Wife MutFunerary Cone of Meryremetjef (Mery-remetjef) and His Wife MutFunerary Cone of Meryremetjef (Mery-remetjef) and His Wife Mut

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.