Funerary Cone of King’s Scribe, Ramose
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Egyptian Caption: Egyptian. Funerary Cone of King’s Scribe, Ramose, 664–332 B.C.E.. Terracotta, Diam. 3 3/4 x 5 11/16 in. (9.5 x 14.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1935E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
The image depicts a round ancient Egyptian artifact with an inscription featuring hieroglyphic text.
The artifact is circular and prominently features hieroglyphic inscriptions organized in horizontal lines. The style suggests a formal script, possibly indicating a royal or religious context. It appears to be carved into a stone surface, with the hieroglyphs well-defined yet showing signs of aging.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1935E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118440 tier-2
About this record's data
- 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.