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Funerary Cone the Cup-Bearer Neferperet

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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. Pottery. H. 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.); W. 8.8 cm (3 7/16 in.); preserved L. 24 cm (9 7/16 in.). From: Tomb of Nebamun and Ipuky (TT 181), courtyard and nearby, Khokha, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1910. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1915.

The same text in other collections

Linked by shared inventory number (MET-Object 559365). 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 funerary cone-like pottery object bearing an ink/painted circular cartouche-like oval with hieroglyphic text surrounded by a border band.

The image shows a small terracotta-colored object with a flattened base and a thick, rounded body. The surface is worn and chipped, with reddish-orange firing fabric visible. On the front, within a raised/outlined oval or cartouche-like frame, there is dark pigment hieroglyphic writing. The sign order and exact reading are not fully legible at this resolution, but the layout resembles formal hieroglyphs enclosed by a circular/oval boundary. No figures of deities are clearly visible; the focus is the inscribed text. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic script is visible.

funerary New Kingdom (catalogue ground truth; exact date unclear from image alone) fragmentary
Materials pottery/terracotta fabricreddish firing surfacedark pigment/ink used for the inscription
Signs hieroglyphic signs within an oval/cartouche-like frame (unreadable) ×10

Connections

Found at Khokha
Materials Reddish Firing Surface

Cross-references (5)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116279953 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 15.10.14 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 559365 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • PNM-Object pnm:83907283 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.