Funerary Cone of Intef
Description
Caption: Funerary Cone of Intef, ca. 1478–1425 B.C.E.. Terracotta, Diam. 3 7/16 x 6 in. (8.7 x 15.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.580.216. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
The same text in other collections
Linked by shared inventory number
(BKM-Object 10027).
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- Brooklyn 16.580.216 PNM text
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 small, wedge/tapered terracotta cone with a weathered surface; any original incised/printed decoration is mostly worn away.
The image shows a single terracotta funerary cone standing upright against a neutral gray background. The object is roughly cone-shaped with a wider base and narrower top, with a reddish-brown fabric and lighter weathering/surface crust. The surface appears eroded, with patches of darker speckling and areas where pigment or slip may have been lost. Faint, degraded markings are visible near the midsection, but they are too worn to reliably identify as specific hieroglyphs or a legible name. No clear deity iconography, cartouche, or associated color traces (e.g., distinct black/blue/red ink) can be confirmed. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.
Cross-references (3)
- BKM-Accession 16.580.216 tier-2
- BKM-Object 10027 tier-2
- PNM-Object pnm:83906530 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.