Funerary Cone of the Child of the Nursery Pahekmen
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. Pottery. Preserved L. 3.5 × Diam. 8 cm (1 3/8 × 3 1/8 in.). From: Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930.
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(MET-Object 554976).
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- MMA 30.6.154 PNM text
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 close-up photograph of a small, rounded conical/handled funerary object surface covered with dense, incised or worn decorative marks resembling hieroglyphic text.
The image shows a light-colored, rough-surfaced artifact photographed from above (or slightly from the front). The form appears roughly conical with a broad top face and a narrow/rounded edge, consistent with a funerary cone profile, though only one side/top is visible. The surface is extensively covered with closely spaced incisions/relief marks that could represent hieroglyphs or decorative inscription fields, but the individual signs are not clear enough to confidently identify specific characters. No painted pigment is clearly visible; the material looks like a gritty ceramic/stone-like surface. There are no legible Greek/Coptic/Arabic inscriptions, and no clear royal names or cartouches are discernible. The condition appears worn and pitted, obscuring fine details.
Cross-references (5)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244095 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.6.154 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 554976 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- PNM-Object pnm:83909571 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.