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Funerary Cone Naming a Butler of the God's Hand Amenirdis Daughter of Kashta

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Description

Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 25 (Kushite), ca. 740–700 B.C. Pottery. H. 7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.); W. 7.6 cm (3 in.); L. 16 cm (6 5/16 in.). From: Tomb MMA Ḫ 1, forecourt, Khokha, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1911. Subject: Hieroglyphs. 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 terracotta/pottery funerary cone bearing incised hieroglyphic text on its surface.

The image shows a single, compact, cone-like object with a rounded profile and a flat-ish base, photographed against a dark-to-light studio background. The surface has dense, incised hieroglyphic signs arranged within a roughly framed oval/circle field. The hieroglyphs are worn but remain legible in strokes; however, specific word-by-word reading is not certain from the provided resolution. No human figures, deities, or clearly identifiable royal cartouches are unambiguously visible. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is present. The overall fabric appears to be fired clay (pottery) with no visible metal or pigment.

funerary Third Intermediate Period (per catalogue); specific text not fully readable from image alone. fragmentary
Materials pottery (incised clay/terracotta)
Signs Unidentified incised hieroglyphic signs (grouped in an oval/circular field) ×30
Visible text "Incised hieroglyphic text is present within a framed oval/circular area; the exact sequence (e.g., Amenirdis, Kashta, “God’s Hand”) cannot be reliably transcribed from the image provided."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Incised hieroglyphic text is present within a framed oval/circular area; the exact sequence (e.g., Amenirdis, Kashta, “God’s Hand”) cannot be reliably transcribed from the image provided.

Connections

Found at Khokha

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116244857 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 15.10.48 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 554373 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.