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Funerary Cone of the High Priest Ahmose

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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1425 B.C. Pottery. H. 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.); W. 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.); preserved L. 18 cm (7 1/16 in.). From: Tomb of Ahmose (TT 121), Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1930–31. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1935.

The same text in other collections

Linked by shared inventory number (MET-Object 561152). 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.

A small, rounded terracotta/pottery funerary cone-like object inscribed with raised incised hieroglyphic text and figures on one face.

The image shows a single, roughly thumb-sized object with a rounded, cone/plug-like form, appearing to be made of fired clay or terracotta. One side is covered with dense, raised and carved hieroglyphs arranged in lines/registers; the top area includes a recognizable bird-like silhouette or sign cluster, while the middle and lower zones contain multiple vertical and rectangular glyph elements. There are no visible cartouches or a clearly readable royal name, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic script is visible. No identifiable deity iconography beyond general symbolic signs is clear enough to name confidently. The surface shows wear and pitting consistent with an excavated clay artifact.

funerary New Kingdom (as catalogued) good
Materials pottery/terracotta (fired clay)
Signs Unclear hieroglyphic signs (raised/incised text) ×30
Visible text "Non-legible from the image; dense hieroglyphic text with multiple vertical signs and a bird-like sign at the top (exact reading unknown)."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Non-legible from the image; dense hieroglyphic text with multiple vertical signs and a bird-like sign at the top (exact reading unknown).

Connections

Found at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Deities Amun
Royals Thutmose III

Cross-references (5)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116275937 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 35.3.332 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 561152 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • PNM-Object pnm:83907866 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.