Funerary Cone of the Royal Tutor Heqaerneheh
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep II–Amenhotep III, ca. 1425–1352 B.C. Pottery. H. 7 cm (2 3/4 in.); W. 6 cm (2 3/8 in.); preserved L. 8.2 cm (3 1/4 in.). From: near the Tomb of Dagi (TT 103, MMA 807), Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1913–14. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1928.
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(MET-Object 554665).
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- MMA 28.3.29 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 small, rounded terracotta/ceramic funerary cone fragment with an incised or impressed hieroglyphic register on its curved surface.
The object appears as a rounded, cone-like ceramic piece (photographed against a plain dark-gray background). Its surface is worn but preserves a dense arrangement of incised hieroglyph-like signs across the visible face. The signs are reddish-brown in the worn areas, suggesting pigment or soil staining within the incised lines. No identifiable painted figures or clear deity iconography are visible beyond the hieroglyphic text. There are no legible cartouches or royal titulary shapes apparent in the provided view, and no non-hieroglyphic scripts are visible (no Greek/Coptic/Arabic). The overall form and the presence of hieroglyphs are consistent with a funerary cone inscription, though the specific person name cannot be confidently read from the image.
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Cross-references (5)
- Wikidata-Q Q116427174 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 28.3.29 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 554665 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- PNM-Object pnm:83906314 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).
- 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.