Funerary Cone of Padineith

Funerary Cone of Padineith

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, set point first into the masonry so that only the flat circular bases, stamped with the tomb owner's name and titles, were visible. This cone is inscribed for Padineith, Steward of the Divine Adoratrice (the chief priestess of the cult of the god Amun). The inscription includes the names of his father, Psamtik, and mother, Tadibastet.

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.