Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

New Kingdom

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 117

This cone has the impression of a stamp matrix inscribed for a man named Amenemopet (Amen-em-opet) who was also known as Tjanefer (Tja-nefer). He was scribe who kept accounts of the grain belonging to the god Amun and also had the title overseer of the fields. Amenemopet owned Theban tomb 297 (TT 297) which is in the Khokha cemetery of the Theban necropolis, behind the former field headquarters of the Museum's Egyptian Expedition.

In 1915, while cleareing TT 297 and two uninscsribed tombs nearby, the Museum’s archaeologists uncovered this cone and four others (15.10.2, .4, .22, .23). Three more cones in the collection have the same stamp (09.185.12, .17, .20). The best preserved impressions are on cones 15.10.2 and 15.10.23.

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet, Pottery

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Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet, Pottery
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet, Pottery
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet, Pottery
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet, Pottery

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