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funerary cone

Department: Ancient Egypt & Sudan

Registration number: 1996,0928.1

BM/Big number: 74840

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Object types
funerary cone (scope note | all objects)

Materials
pottery (scope note | all objects)
Type Series
Davies-Macadam 506
Place (findspot)
Found/Acquired Qurna (by inference) (all objects)
Period/Culture
19th Dynasty (all objects)


Description
A funerary cone of coarse red pottery, with a circular stamped inscription on the end naming Nefermenu, Scribe of the temple of Seth.

Inscriptions
Inscription Type: inscription
Inscription Script: hieroglyphic
Inscription Position: front
Inscription Language:
Inscription Translation: Titles/epithets include : Scribe of the Temple of Seth
Inscription Comment: Remains of three horizontal lines.


Dimensions
Length: 12.8 centimetres
Diameter: 7 centimetres


Condition
Incomplete. Thinner end broken off and parts of inscribed end damaged, with loss of parts of upper and lower lines.



Associated names
Named in inscription Nefermenu (biographical details | all objects)


Acquisition date
1996

Acquisition name
Purchased from Astarte Gallery (biographical details | all objects)


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