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Funerary Cone of the Deputy of the Medjay Simut

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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. Pottery. Preserved L. 3.5 × Diam. 7 cm (1 3/8 × 2 3/4 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 554946). 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.

Photograph of an inscribed Egyptian funerary cone-like object with a carved register of hieroglyphs on one face.

The image shows a roughly conical/rounded clay artifact photographed against a light background. The surface is coated in a darkened, worn material (likely soil/smoke residue or aged surface), with multiple incised hieroglyphic lines and signs arranged in horizontal bands across the face. The carving is heavily abraded, making individual signs hard to distinguish; however, the presence of grouped rectangular bars and other hieroglyph-like shapes suggests formal Egyptian script. No clear cartouche frame or royal titulary is confidently readable in the available resolution. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.

funerary New Kingdom (as per catalogue; inscription too unclear to refine further) fragmentary
Materials pottery/clay (incised surface)
Signs hieroglyphic sign groups in horizontal registers (exact reading unclear) ×10

Cross-references (5)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116244165 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.6.108 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 554946 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • PNM-Object pnm:83909228 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.