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. 37.1934E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.1934E
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: 8.6 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Description

Catalogue description: Culture Egyptian Caption: Egyptian. Funerary Cone of King’s Scribe, Ramose, 664–332 B.C.E.. Terracotta, Diam. 3 3/8 x 5 13/16 in. (8.6 x 14.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1934E. (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 round terracotta funerary cone fragment with vertical columns of incised Egyptian hieroglyphs; a central cartouche-like oval is surrounded by additional signs.

The image shows a circular/semicircular terracotta artifact with the surface worn and abraded. Incised hieroglyphs are arranged in several vertical registers/columns separated by thin guide lines. Multiple recognizable man/eagle/standard-like sign groups are present on the left column, while the right side contains dense vertical stacks of signs. In the center there is an oval/cartouche-like field containing internal stacked hieroglyphs, framed by surrounding signs. No clear deity iconography (e.g., specific seated gods with attributes) can be confirmed from the wear and low resolution. There is no visible modern label text or Greek/Coptic/Arabic script.

funerary Late Period (as catalogued); exact subperiod unclear from image alone fragmentary

Royals unclear (cartouche present but unreadable in image)

Materials terracotta (fired clay)

Signs Cartouche/oval enclosing royal name (exact name unclear) Additional vertical hieroglyph groups in registers (individual signs not reliably legible) ×20

Connections

Found at Thebes

Materials Terracotta

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.1934E tier-2
BKM-Object 118439 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.