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

Funerary Cone of the Fourth Prophet of Amun Kaemamun

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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep II, ca. 1425–1400 B.C. Pottery. L. 22 cm (8 11/16 in.); W. 8 cm (3 1/8 in.); H. 6.4 cm (2 1/2 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 554920). 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 circular/planar Egyptian funerary cone-like object (pottery) shown with incised hieroglyphs arranged across the face.

The image shows a light-colored, weathered clay artifact with a flat-to-slightly convex face and a darkened rim/edge. The surface has multiple lines of incised hieroglyphic signs in black/dark pigment or deep engraving, distributed across the visible area; the signs are worn but clearly hieroglyphic in layout. No clear cartouche (royal name oval) is confidently readable from the available resolution. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic script is visible. Deity names cannot be identified with certainty from the partly legible sign forms. The catalogued identification as a funerary cone of the Fourth Prophet of Amun Kaemamun is consistent in general with the presence of Egyptian hieroglyphs on a pottery funerary object, but the specific name Kaemamun cannot be verified from this image.

funerary New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials pottery/clay
Signs Incised Egyptian hieroglyphic signs (unreadable fragments) ×20

Connections

Deities Amun

Cross-references (5)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116244219 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.6.50 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 554920 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • PNM-Object pnm:83907497 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.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.