Funerary Cone
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. Pottery. L. 21 cm (8 1/4 in.); Diam. 8 cm (3 1/8 in.). From: Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930.
The same text in other collections
Linked by shared inventory number
(MET-Object 554910).
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- MMA 30.6.30 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 damaged, circular/triangular ceramic funerary object fragment covered with incised or stamped marks resembling Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The image shows a gray ceramic artifact fragment with a roughly rounded, slightly tapering shape and a broken or weathered surface. Across the face are multiple vertical and horizontal impressed/incised strokes forming a dense band of what appear to be hieroglyphic signs, though most details are too eroded to confidently identify individual signs. The background is a plain, light stone or wall surface. No clear cartouche, deity figure, or legible full inscription is visible; only isolated strokes and partial sign elements can be distinguished. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.
Connections
Cross-references (5)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244240 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.6.30 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 554910 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- PNM-Object pnm:83907102 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.