Funerary Cone of the Goldsmith Nebseny

Funerary Cone of the Goldsmith Nebseny

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This funerary cone is stamped with a seal inscribed for a man named Nebseny who was chief goldsmith of Amun. For a drawing of this impression, see The world of funerary cones and stamped bricks, no. 266. Another example of this seal is on cone 30.6.177.

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.