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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · funerary_equipment

Funerary Cone of the Prince of Kush, Merymosi

Source of record: Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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)

The same text in other collections

Linked by shared inventory number (BKM-Object 19274). Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

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.

Photograph of a small, rounded terracotta funerary cone stamped or incised with an Egyptian-style hieroglyphic inscription in a circular border.

The image shows a single terracotta object placed upright and supported by white foam on a grey studio background. The object is roughly cone-shaped or domed at the top with an overall reddish-brown fabric consistent with fired clay. The front face contains a compact block of hieroglyphs arranged within a raised or incised circular frame; additional small signs appear along the lower portion of the circular field. A separate rectangular label with handwritten/printed catalog numbers is visible beneath the object, but it is not ancient script. No visible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is present. No clear cartouche or royal name can be confidently read from the hieroglyphs at this resolution.

funerary New Kingdom (catalogue ground truth; inscribed terracotta funerary cone style consistent but not conclusively readable) good
Materials terracotta (fired clay)
Signs group of hieroglyphs within a circular frame (exact signs unclear) ×20

Connections

Found at Thebes
Materials Terracotta

Cross-references (3)

  • BKM-Accession 08.480.222 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 19274 tier-2
  • PNM-Object pnm:83906875 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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.