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Funerary Cone

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

New Kingdom, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. Pottery. L. 12.6 × Dia. 9 cm (4 15/16 × 3 9/16 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1915.

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 rounded, fired-clay funerary cone fragment with an impressed/painted rectangular field of hieroglyphs on one face.

The object is a small, circular/ovoid piece of baked clay, likely broken from a larger funerary cone. One side shows a flat, smoothed rectangular panel containing incised/embossed hieroglyphic-style signs arranged in horizontal lines. The surrounding surface is rough and weathered. No clearly identifiable deity figures or royal cartouches are legible at this resolution. The rest of the artifact is uninscribed/eroded. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.

funerary New Kingdom (catalogue ground truth; specific reign unclear from image) fragmentary
Materials potterybaked clay
Signs rectangular hieroglyphic inscription field with multiple stacked/rowed signs (exact signs unclear) ×20
Visible text "Hieroglyphic inscription in a rectangular panel; individual sign forms not reliably legible in the provided image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Hieroglyphic inscription in a rectangular panel; individual sign forms not reliably legible in the provided image.

Connections

Materials PotteryBaked Clay

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116726777 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 15.2.48 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 553125 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
  • 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.