Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · funerary_equipment
Funerary Cone of the High Priest Ahmose New KingdomSheikh Abd el-Qurna
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.
- MMA 35.3.332 PNM text
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
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).
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)
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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.