Stamped Brick the Goldsmith Amenhotep and His Wife Nofretiry

Stamped Brick the Goldsmith Amenhotep and His Wife Nofretiry

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This mud brick has impressions of a square stamp seal inscribed for a man named Amenhotep who was a goldsmith of the god Amun. His wife, the house mistress Nofretiry is also named. For a drawing of this impression see http://www.funerarycones.com/, number 160.


Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Stamped Brick the Goldsmith Amenhotep and His Wife NofretiryStamped Brick the Goldsmith Amenhotep and His Wife NofretiryStamped Brick the Goldsmith Amenhotep and His Wife NofretiryStamped Brick the Goldsmith Amenhotep and His Wife NofretiryStamped Brick the Goldsmith Amenhotep and His Wife Nofretiry

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.