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

Funerary Cone of the High Priest of Amun Menkheperresonb

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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1425 B.C. Pottery. L. 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.); Diam. 7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.). Probably from: Asasif. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1913.

The same text in other collections

Linked by shared inventory number (MET-Object 555072). Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

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 photograph of a small, rounded/oblong funerary cone with an incised hieroglyphic inscription on its face.

The object appears as a cone-shaped ceramic piece photographed from above at a slight angle. Its surface is weathered, with the outer edge rough and chipped. The front face contains a compact arrangement of incised hieroglyphs (lines and wedge-like strokes) and a central sign that could be part of a name or offering formula, though the individual signs are too worn to read reliably. No other inscriptions (Greek/Coptic/Arabic) are visible. The background is a sandy or excavated ground texture, consistent with an archaeological find context.

funerary New Kingdom (as catalogued); image text too unclear for independent dating fragmentary
Materials pottery (ceramic)
Signs incised hieroglyphic signs (individual signs unreadable due to wear) ×10

Connections

Found at Asasif
Deities Amun
Materials Pottery

Cross-references (5)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116243786 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 13.180.66 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 555072 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • PNM-Object pnm:83906290 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.