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Funerary Cone of the Scribe of the Treasury Senu

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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. Pottery. H. 8.1 cm (3 13/16 in.); W. 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.); preserved L. 17.2 cm (6 3/4 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 559367). 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 pottery cone or cone-fragment bearing a red-painted inscription/sign cluster on its front face.

The object is shown isolated against a dark background. It has a rounded, cone-like/stopper-like form with a worn surface. The front face preserves a red-painted central motif resembling an Egyptian inscription: a boxed or framed set of signs with a few distinct characters above and below, surrounded by scattered red traces. No legible full phrase, cartouche, or clear deity iconography is confidently readable from the provided image resolution. The back and sides are plain and worn, with no additional markings visible. The overall appearance matches a decorated funerary pottery item with painted text.

funerary New Kingdom (per catalogue) fragmentary
Materials pottery (surface with red pigment/paint)
Signs boxed inscription / framed sign cluster (unidentified)
Visible text "Unclear red-painted hieroglyphic sign cluster within a framed/boxed area; individual signs not reliably legible in this image."

Connections

Found at Khokha

Cross-references (5)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116279945 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 15.10.17 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 559367 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • PNM-Object pnm:83909754 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.