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

Funerary Cone the Overseer of His Majesty's Horses Hekaneheh

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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. Pottery. Preserved L. 10 × Diam. 7.5 cm (3 15/16 × 2 15/16 in.). From: Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930.

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Linked by shared inventory number (MET-Object 554917). 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 small rounded funerary cone or cone-like object of clay with damaged, incised surface decoration or writing on the visible face.

The image shows a single, small, brownish clay artifact photographed against a dark-to-light gradient background. The object is roughly conical but appears worn into a rounded form, with a concentration of shallow incisions or strokes on the upper front surface. The incised marks are too eroded to reliably identify specific hieroglyphs, titles, or names. No clear deities, cartouches, or legible royal titulary are visible at this resolution. The sides and underside are plain aside from the general worn texture. The overall surface is matte with cracks and pitting consistent with fired or dried pottery.

funerary New Kingdom (per catalogue); specific inscription/scene not legible enough to refine fragmentary
Materials pottery (clay)
Signs incised strokes/possible hieroglyph fragments (illegible) ×10

Connections

Materials Pottery

Cross-references (5)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116244225 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.6.75 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 554917 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • PNM-Object pnm:83906254 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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  • 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.