Funerary Cone of the Overseer of the Seal Min

Funerary Cone of the Overseer of the Seal Min

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This funerary cone is stamped with the impression of of a seal inscribed for a man named Min who was overseer of the seal. Funerary cones were used to decorate the facades of private tombs in western Thebes and multiple examples were made (see 15.2.47, .72; 15.10.39, .40; 28.3.31; 30.6.6). For a drawing of this impression see http://www.funerarycones.com/, number 499.

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.