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Funerary Cone of the High Priest of Amun Hapuseneb

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 15.10.41. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 15.10.41
Find spot: Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt approx. site location
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Reign: joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
Date: ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
Date range: 1479 BCE – 1458 BCE
Materials: ['pottery']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1458 B.C. Pottery. H. 7.3 cm (2 7/8 in.); W. 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.); preserved L. 12.5 cm (4 15/16 in.). From: Tombs TT 65 and TT 66, forecourt, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1914. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1915.

The same text in other collections

Linked by shared inventory number (MET-Object 559384). Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

MMA 15.10.41 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 terracotta funerary cone fragment with a circular face showing incised painted/dark-red hieroglyphic text and signs.

The object appears to be a pottery cone or cone fragment, photographed from the front. Its face is decorated with a tightly framed circular/oval field containing multiple incised hieroglyphic signs. The signs are rendered in dark red/brown against a light beige clay surface, though some erosion and edge loss make parts of the text difficult to read precisely. No clear figurative deity imagery, human figures, or cartouches are confidently legible in the visible area. The background is plain studio lighting, and only the cone’s decorated face is clearly shown.

funerary New Kingdom (catalogue ground truth) fragmentary

Materials pottery/terracotta (light beige clay)dark-red/brown pigment over incised hieroglyphs

Signs group of incised hieroglyphic signs in a circular framed field (exact signs unclear) ×20

Visible text "Inscription present but not fully legible in the provided image; consists of incised hieroglyphic signs within a circular framed panel."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Inscription present but not fully legible in the provided image; consists of incised hieroglyphic signs within a circular framed panel.

Connections

Found at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna

Deities Amun

Cross-references (5)

Wikidata-Q Q116280263 tier-1
Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
Inventory-Number 15.10.41 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
MET-Object 559384 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
PNM-Object pnm:83909450 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).
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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.