Funerary Cone
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. pottery. H. 5.1 cm (2 in.); preserved W. 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.); preserved L. 2.8 cm (1 1/8 in.). From: near the Tomb of Nebamun and Ipuky (TT 181), Khokha, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations 1910. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1915.
The same text in other collections
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(MET-Object 560910).
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- MMA 15.10.105 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 rectangular, weathered Egyptian funerary object made of fired clay/ceramic, incised or impressed with a raised/engraved figure-like and sign-like motifs on one face.
The image shows a standalone ceramic/cone-like fragment with a roughly rectangular body viewed from the front. One surface contains worn incised or relief-like marks arranged as vertical and horizontal bands that resemble hieroglyphic or iconographic elements, but details are too eroded to read confidently. The back/side surfaces are mostly plain and less detailed. The object’s overall surface is dusty and abraded, with chips along edges, suggesting age or excavation wear. No clearly legible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible, and no royal cartouche can be confirmed due to erosion. The object is consistent in general appearance with a small pottery funerary inscription/cone-like item, though the exact form and specific signs cannot be securely identified from the provided resolution.
Connections
Cross-references (5)
- Wikidata-Q Q116437345 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.10.105 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 560910 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- PNM-Object pnm:83909893 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.