
Funerary Cone of Amenemopet called Tjanefer
An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art
The end of this funerary cone has the impression of a round stamp seal inscribed for a man named Amenemopet (Amen-em-opet) who was also known as Tjanefer (Tja-nefer). He was a scribe of accounts of the grain of Amun, the principal god of ancient thebes. Amenemopet also had the title overseer of the fields and was the owner of Theban tomb 297 (TT 297). In 1909, the Museum acquired this cone and two others with the same stamp (09.185.12, .17), and in 1915, while excavating an uninscribed tomb near TT 297, Museum archaeologists uncovered five more (15.10.2–.4, .22, .23). The best preserved impression are on cones 15.10.2 and 15.10.23. (CHR)
Egyptian Art
An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art
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.