Funerary Cone of the High Priest of Amun Hapuseneb

Funerary Cone of the High Priest of Amun Hapuseneb

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This funerary cone is stamped with a seal inscribed for man named Hapuseneb who was high priest of the god Amun and seal-bearer of the king of Lower Egypt during the joint reign of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut and her nephew, Thutmose III. Hapusenb's tomb (TT 67) is in the Sheikh Abd el-Qurna cemetery of western Thebes. The tomb's facade seems to have been decorated with funerary cones stamped with two different, but similar, seals. In this example, the Inscription consists of three rows of hieroglyphs separated by raised lines. The second stamp has the same rows of hieroglyphs, but the separating lines have been omitted. For other examples of this second seal type, see cones 15.10.41 and 28.3.26. (CHR)

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.