Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · funerary_equipment

Funerary Cone of King’s Scribe, Ramose

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.1932E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.1932E
Find spot: Thebes, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 25, or later
Date: 664–332 B.C.E.
Date range: 664 BCE – 332 BCE
Materials: ['Terracotta']
Height: 9.0 cm
Width: 14.4 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Catalogue description: Culture Egyptian Caption: Egyptian. Funerary Cone of King’s Scribe, Ramose, 664–332 B.C.E.. Terracotta, Diam. 3 9/16 x 5 11/16 in. (9 x 14.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1932E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A gray terracotta funerary cone fragment bearing incised vertical columns of hieroglyphs.

The image shows a rounded, broken piece of terracotta with multiple incised vertical bands of hieroglyphic signs. The central band is more prominent, with a tall, rectangular/obelisk-like outline enclosing a small sign. Surrounding columns contain smaller, less legible signs and strokes. No painted surface, gilding, or figural sculpture is visible—only carved inscriptions. The object appears weathered with surface loss along the edges, consistent with a cone fragment rather than a complete artifact.

funerary Late Period (per catalogue) fragmentary

Materials terracotta (gray, fired clay)

Signs incised hieroglyphic signs in vertical columns (exact signs unclear) ×20

Visible text "Vertical incised hieroglyphic text; specific readable words/signs not clear at this resolution."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Vertical incised hieroglyphic text; specific readable words/signs not clear at this resolution.

Connections

Found at Thebes

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.1932E tier-2
BKM-Object 118437 tier-2

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From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.