Funerary Cone of the Prince of Kush, Merymosi
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Egyptian Caption: Egyptian. Funerary Cone of the Prince of Kush, Merymosi, ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E.. Terracotta, Diam. 2 11/16 x 7 in. (6.8 x 17.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.222. (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.
A conical object with hieroglyphic inscriptions on its circular face.
This artifact appears to be a clay seal or impression tool from ancient Egypt, featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions. The hieroglyphs are well preserved, suggesting it might have been used for marking property or documents. The object's conical shape and the style of the hieroglyphs suggest a potential use in administrative or ceremonial contexts.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 08.480.222 tier-2
- BKM-Object 19274 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.