Funerary cones were small cones made from clay that were used in ancient Egypt, almost exclusively in the Theban Necropolis. The items were placed over...

Dynasty. Djehuty is known from a small number of funerary cones in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The cone is inscribed for "The First Prophet of Amun and...

Funerary cone of Penre, an 18th Dynasty Chief of the Medjay...

offered some protection against weathering. The similar funerary cones of ancient Egypt used the cone base as the major writing surface. As some of the oldest...

Flint knife – prestige funerary good, from the Naqada period until the end of the Early Dynastic Period Funerary cone – small cones made from clay that were...

from the time of Ahmose I (18th Dynasty). Minmontu is known from a funerary cone (UC37666) from Thebes, now at University College London. A heart scarab...

boring bar doing the cutting. Base of Ancient Egypt type Old Kingdom funerary cone, in finest condition. Raised Bas relief, archaic-type hieroglyphs, between...

for instance the List of MMA Tombs. Theban tombs tended to have clay funerary cones placed over the entrance of the tomb chapels. During the New Kingdom...

from several sources. A funerary cone preserves a number of titles, that make it possible to reconstruct his career. On the cone he appears as child of...

However, there are funerary cones with his name coming from Thebes that seem to proof that he had a tomb there. Funerary cones adorned Theban tomb chapels...