Funerary Cone of Nentaweref
Culture: Egyptian
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Date: ca. 1550-1295 B.C.
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions:
height: 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm)
diameter: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number: 86.138.267.b
Inscribed: Five columns of text written left to right:
Column 1:
mAa
(see Column 5)
Column 2:
imAxy xr wsr
Honored by Osiris,
Column 3:
Xrd n kAp imy-r wabw n imn
child of the kap, overseer of wab-priests of Amun
Column 4:
nn-tA-wA-r.f
Nentawaref
Column 5:
xrw
true of voice (read together with Column 1)
[trans. S. Schellinger, 2018]
Provenance: By purchase, the Stark family, Orange, Texas, between 1927 and 1929; by bequest, the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1965; by purchase, the San Antonio Museum of Art with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, 1986
From Theban Tomb (TT) 398 [see Dibley and Lipkin reference; copy in curatorial file; S. Schellinger 2018]
Published References
C. C. Van Siclen, III, An Illustrated Checklist for Mummies, Myths and Magic (San Antonio: Van Siclen Books, 1990), p. 23, no. 13.
Label Text
Rows of funerary cones like these decorated the mudbrick exteriors of New Kingdom tombs at Thebes. The hieroglyphic inscriptions give the name and titles of the tomb owner.
(J. Powers, 2016)
(J. Powers, 2016)
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