Funerary Cone of the Chief of the Merchants Tjay

Funerary Cone of the Chief of the Merchants Tjay

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This cone has the impressions of an oval stamp seal inscribed for a man named Tjay who was the chief of the merchants. For a drawing of the impression see http://www.funerarycones.com/, number 311.

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.