Funerary Cone of the Wab-Priest Neferkhawet
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. Pottery. H. 7.4 cm (2 15/16 in.); W. 7.2 cm (2 13/16 in.); preserved L. 17.3 cm (6 13/16 in.). From: Tomb of Tjanefer (TT 297, MMA 831, MMA Ḫ5), in front of, Khokha, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1911. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1915.
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- MMA 15.10.29 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, rounded funerary pottery cone inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs, shown front-on against a neutral background.
The object appears to be a thumb-sized, terracotta-colored pottery cone with a rounded top and a flatter face. The front face is covered with incised/relief hieroglyphic signs arranged in several horizontal lines. Individual signs are visible but not sufficiently clear to unambiguously read names or titles. No figurative deity imagery is clearly discernible from the available view. There is no visible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text. No legible royal cartouches are identifiable in the image. Overall condition looks fragmentary at the edges with surface wear consistent with age and handling, but the hieroglyphic field remains broadly visible.
Cross-references (5)
- Wikidata-Q Q116279922 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.10.29 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 559377 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- PNM-Object pnm:83908655 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.