Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

Funerary Cone

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

Description

Pottery

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 round clay seal impression with hieroglyphic inscriptions.

The image depicts a circular clay seal impression featuring several hieroglyphic symbols. The style suggests it may have been used for official or administrative purposes. The composition consists of various symbols carved into the clay, depicting what could be names or titles.

hieroglyphic only unknown good
Materials clay
Signs unknown ×5
Visible text "unknown"

Connections

Materials Clay

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116282278 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 49.111.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546012 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.