Funerary Cone
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. Pottery. H. 7.2 cm (2 13/16 in.); W. 7.2 cm (2 13/16 in.); L. 14.5 cm (5 11/16 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 small, round, clay funerary cone/brick-like object with a worn circular field containing faint molded or incised decoration arranged in rows resembling hieroglyphic signs.
The object appears to be a small terracotta/pottery piece shaped like a cone or plug, with one face dominated by a circular border. Inside the border, there are shallow, repeating horizontal and vertical elements that resemble hieroglyphic layout, but the individual signs are too eroded to read confidently. The outer surface shows weathering and loss of fine detail, especially along the right and upper edges. No clear images of deities or royal cartouches are legible in the provided view. The background is neutral; no associated inscriptions in Greek/Coptic/Arabic are visible.
Connections
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244855 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.10.46 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 554374 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.