Funerary Cone of the Wab-Priest Neferkhawet

Funerary Cone of the Wab-Priest Neferkhawet

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This cone has the impression of a stamp seal inscribed for a wab-priest named Neferkhawet who was also overseer of the fields of Amun and chief bee keeper of Amun. For other examples of this type of cone see 15.10.28; 28.3.33 and 28.3 34. For a drawing see http://www.funerarycones.com/, number 405.

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.