Funerary Cone of the Fourth Prophet of Amon, Menthuemhat
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Egyptian Caption: Egyptian. Funerary Cone of the Fourth Prophet of Amon, Menthuemhat, ca. 1075–656 B.C.E., or 664–332 B.C.E.. Terracotta, Diam. 3 9/16 x 8 11/16 in. (9 x 22 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.118E. (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, cone-like funerary object (terracotta) with an incised band of Egyptian hieroglyphs arranged in horizontal lines across the face.
The object is a dark gray/black terracotta disk or truncated cone with a rounded top and a flat or slightly concave back edge. The visible front surface is densely filled with incised hieroglyphs, laid out in multiple horizontal rows. The signs appear worn but still recognizable in places as typical Egyptian funerary epigraphy (e.g., rectangular and vertical stroke elements), though individual sign readings are not confidently determinable from the image resolution. No clear cartouche or royal name is legible. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. No explicit deity iconography is identifiable beyond the presence of funerary hieroglyphs.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.118E tier-2
- BKM-Object 116838 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.