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. 37.1935E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.1935E
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: 9.5 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 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-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 showing multiple vertical columns of incised Egyptian hieroglyphs filled with worn/abraded pigment or surface traces.

The object is photographed from the front as a thick, circular/rounded cone body. Its surface is decorated with several tall, narrow vertical bands separated by engraved lines; within these bands are hieroglyphic signs incised in shallow relief/line. The center area contains a prominent, larger sign cluster, while the left and right bands include additional smaller signs and stroke-based elements. The outer rim is rough and chipped, with heavy abrasion that obscures many specific sign details. No clear human figure, deity icon, or royal cartouche is legible in the image at this resolution. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.

funerary Late Period (catalogue-provided) poor

Deities unknown

Royals unknown

Materials terracotta (implied by catalogued material; surface appears fired clay with worn incised decoration)

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

Visible text "Hieroglyphic text is present in multiple vertical columns, but individual sign forms are too eroded/unclear to reliably transcribe from this image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Hieroglyphic text is present in multiple vertical columns, but individual sign forms are too eroded/unclear to reliably transcribe from this image.

Connections

Found at Thebes

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.1935E tier-2
BKM-Object 118440 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.