Funerary Cone of the Royal Herald Intef
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1453 B.C. Pottery. H. 10 cm (3 15/16 in.); W. 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.); preserved L. 15.2 cm (6 in.). From: Dra Abu el-Naga, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: Mond & Mackay excavations, 1913-14. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1914.
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(MET-Object 554372).
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- MMA 14.1.428 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, rounded clay funerary cone fragment with a recessed circular face containing faint incised hieroglyphs.
The object appears to be a pottery funerary cone or cone fragment: a rounded, brown clay body with an impressed/recessed front panel. The front panel is roughly circular and filled with worn, incised hieroglyphic signs, though the individual signs are too eroded to read reliably from this image. No clear painted decoration is visible; surface texture and firing/handling marks are apparent. The reverse/side surfaces are undecorated in the photo. There is no legible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text visible.
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Cross-references (5)
- Wikidata-Q Q116425368 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 14.1.428 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 554372 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- PNM-Object pnm:83906531 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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.