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

Funerary Cone of the Scribe Kanakht New Kingdom

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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. Pottery. Preserved L. 2.5 × Diam. 7.5 cm (1 × 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 554974). Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.

Connections

Deities Montu
Materials Ceramic

Cross-references (5)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116244097 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.6.172 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 554974 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • PNM-Object pnm:83909533 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).
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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.