Funerary Cone of Sapair

Funerary Cone of Sapair

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This funerary cone is stamped with the impression of a seal inscribed for a man named Sapair (Sa-pa-ir) who was a wab-priest of the god Amun. Funerary cones seem to have been used as architectural decoration, arranged in rows along the upper edge of private tomb facades at Thebes. The round end of each cone was stamped with the name and titles of the tomb owner. For a drawing of this impression see http://www.funerarycones.com/, number 155.

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.