Funerary Cone of the Overseer Userhat

Funerary Cone of the Overseer Userhat

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Used as architectural decoration, funerary cones were arranged along the upper edge of the facades of private tombs at Thebes. This cone is inscribed for a man named Userhat who was an overseer of the cattle of Amun (see also 09.185.5). For a drawing of this impression, see The world of funerary cones and stamped bricks, no. 255.

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.