Home › Browse › MET › Object 55473
Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · funerary_equipment

Funerary Cone

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. Pottery. Preserved L. 5 cm (1 15/16 in.); Diam. 8.2 cm (3 1/4 in.). From: Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1915.

The same text in other collections

Linked by shared inventory number (MET-Object 555039). 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 circular, weathered pottery funerary cone (or similar cone/fragment) bearing incised or impressed Egyptian hieroglyphic signs across the face.

A round, grayish ceramic surface fills the frame, with abraded edges and a worn, matte finish. The face is covered by vertically arranged, grid-like hieroglyphic signs or bands, arranged in multiple columns separated by lines. Some signs are partially lost due to abrasion, but the overall layout strongly resembles hieroglyphic inscription fields typical of funerary cones. No clear figurative imagery, deity iconography, or royal cartouche is distinguishable from the visible wear. The photographic presentation provides no visible base, tip, or full cone profile, so the exact three-dimensional shape is inferred only from the catalogue description.

funerary New Kingdom (per catalogue); exact dynasty/king unclear from image. fragmentary
Materials pottery (ceramic)
Signs Egyptian hieroglyphic signs (indeterminate; partially legible) ×20
Visible text "Hieroglyphic inscription present but too worn/obscured to transcribe reliably from this image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Hieroglyphic inscription present but too worn/obscured to transcribe reliably from this image.

Connections

Materials Pottery

Cross-references (5)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116243918 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 15.2.54 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 555039 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • PNM-Object pnm:83907156 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.