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Funerary Cone of the House Mistress Taiy

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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. Pottery. Preserved L. 3.5 × Diam. 8.5 cm (1 3/8 × 3 3/8 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 554969). 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.

The image shows a weathered, roughly cylindrical/rounded funerary object with molded raised decoration forming a band of hieroglyphic text and symbols around the face.

A gray, plaster-like surface covers a thick, cone-shaped object. On the front is a recessed/raised panel of hieroglyphs: a large, curved element at the bottom resembles a mound/stand or curved sign, above it a group of vertical and horizontal strokes form a clustered hieroglyphic line, and at the center top a rounded/arched shape sits within a shallow cartouche-like recess. The object is heavily worn, with much of the fine sign detail obscured by erosion and loss of surface. No clear royal cartouche or deity figure is fully legible from this image alone. The overall appearance is consistent with a funerary cone type bearing molded inscription text.

funerary New Kingdom (as catalogued); exact date uncertain due to wear fragmentary
Materials pottery (likely, per catalogue)coarse gray surface coating/plaster (visible)
Signs Unidentified group of molded hieroglyphs (clustered line of strokes and a curved basal sign) ×10
Visible text "Molded raised hieroglyphic text is present but too eroded to transcribe reliably; an arched/rounded recess at upper center and a curved basal sign with stacked strokes are visible."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Molded raised hieroglyphic text is present but too eroded to transcribe reliably; an arched/rounded recess at upper center and a curved basal sign with stacked strokes are visible.

Cross-references (5)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116244107 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.6.151 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 554969 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • PNM-Object pnm:83907827 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.