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Funerary Cone of Djeserka

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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1352 B.C. Pottery. Preserved L. 15 cm (5 7/8 in.); Diam. 7.3 cm (2 7/8 in.). From: Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Gift of Herbert E. Winlock, 1909.

The same text in other collections

Linked by shared inventory number (MET-Object 555028). 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 a rounded, conical/plug-like funerary object with an incised, hieroglyphic inscription and a vertical column of signs on the front.

The image shows a single small object photographed against a light background. It has a rounded profile with a flat face oriented toward the camera, bearing a bas-relief/engraved band and a rectangular field of hieroglyphs. Multiple hieroglyphic signs are visible, arranged in horizontal registers and at least one vertical stack or column. The stone/clay surface is worn and abraded, obscuring fine details; the overall readability is limited to broad shapes of typical hieroglyphs. No clearly identifiable deities or royal names are legible with confidence, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. The object appears consistent with an inscribed funerary cone type rather than a sculpted figure.

funerary New Kingdom (as catalogued); inscription style unclear due to wear poor
Materials clay/pottery (gray-black fired surface with worn inscription)
Signs unidentified hieroglyphic signs in a horizontal register (partially eroded) ×10 unidentified hieroglyphic signs in a vertical column (partially eroded) ×6

Connections

Found at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Deities Amun

Cross-references (5)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116243970 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 09.185.18 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 555028 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • PNM-Object pnm:83909647 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.