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Funerary Cone Naming a Butler of the God's Hand Amenirdis Daughter of Kashta

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Description

Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 25 (Kushite), ca. 740–700 B.C. Pottery. H. 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.); W. 8.8 cm (3 7/16 in.); L. 16 cm (6 5/16 in.). From: Tomb MMA Ḫ 1, forecourt, Khokha, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1911. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1915.

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, roughly circular-bottomed clay funerary cone fragment with an incised rectangular field of hieroglyphs on the front.

The object is a cone-shaped terracotta/pottery fragment viewed from the front. The front face contains an incised, lightly weathered inscription arranged within a bordered rectangular panel. Within the panel are multiple vertical and horizontal hieroglyph signs; some strokes are eroded, making individual sign identification difficult at this resolution. No painted decoration or glaze is visible. The back/side surfaces are plain and sandy. No clear cartouche, royal titulary, or divine determinative is confidently readable from the image provided. The inscription appears to be the only decorated element.

funerary Third Intermediate Period (per catalogue; exact sign-based dating unclear from image) fragmentary
Materials pottery/terracotta (sandy clay)
Signs incised hieroglyphic signs in a bordered rectangular inscription panel (individual signs unclear) ×12

Connections

Found at Khokha

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116276177 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 15.10.49 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 560909 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.