Funerary Cone of Neferhotep and His Wife Meryre

Funerary Cone of Neferhotep and His Wife Meryre

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This funeerary cone is inscribed for a man named Neferhotep who was chief scribe of Amun and owner of Theban tomb 49. His wife, the house mistress Meryre, is also named. For a drawing of this impression, see The world of funerary cones and stamped bricks, no. 291.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Funerary Cone of Neferhotep and His Wife MeryreFunerary Cone of Neferhotep and His Wife MeryreFunerary Cone of Neferhotep and His Wife MeryreFunerary Cone of Neferhotep and His Wife MeryreFunerary Cone of Neferhotep and His Wife Meryre

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.