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Funerary Cone

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

Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. Pottery. L. 2.5 × Diam. 9 cm (1 × 3 9/16 in.). From: Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Subject: Cartouches. Credit: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930.

The same text in other collections

Linked by shared inventory number (MET-Object 554852). 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 roughly oval fired-clay object with a recessed rectangular panel containing an incised band of hieroglyph-like marks and surrounding smaller incisions.

The image shows a small pottery funerary-type cone or cone-like form with a rounded outer body and a deep rectangular recessed area on the face. Within the recess there is a dense arrangement of short, carved, stick-like/rectilinear marks consistent in shape with hieroglyphic signs, though the individual signs are not clear enough to confidently read. The recess is bordered by a raised/eroded frame, and additional scattered small incisions appear on the outer surface. No clearly identifiable human figure, deity figure, or cartouche is visible in the provided view. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is apparent. The object surface looks chalky/eroded, consistent with an aged pottery artifact photographed in black and white.

funerary New Kingdom (per catalogue ground truth; image too unclear for finer attribution) poor
Materials potteryfired clay
Signs unknown hieroglyphic sign (incised rectilinear marks) ×15
Visible text "Dense incised, rectilinear hieroglyph-like marks in the recessed rectangular panel; exact reading unclear."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Dense incised, rectilinear hieroglyph-like marks in the recessed rectangular panel; exact reading unclear.

Connections

Materials PotteryFired Clay

Cross-references (5)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116244377 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.6.106 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 554852 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • PNM-Object pnm:83908209 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.