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Funerary cone of Amenemopet (called Tjanefer)
Egyptian
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18
1550–1295 B.C.
Object Place: Egypt, Thebes (Asasif), Possibly tomb 297
Medium/Technique
Pottery
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 3.8 x 7.3 cm (1 1/2 x 2 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Hay Collection—Gift of C. Granville Way
Accession Number72.1802
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsArchitectural elements
Catalogue Raisonné
Davies & MacAdam 73
DescriptionFunerary cone fragment of reddish clay; portion of tapering cone element broken off and missing; traces of red paint. Circular stamp on head with four columns of hieroglyphic text identifying the owner.
Translation of text:
"One honored by
Osiris, Scribe of Grain Accounting of
Amen, Overseer of Fields, Amen-
emopet, called Tja-nefer."
Transliteration:
imAxy xr
Wsir sS Hsb-it n
Imn imy-r AHwt Imn-
m-ipt Dd n.f TA-nfr
Funerary cones were components of a frieze, inserted above the doors of private tombs, particularly in the Theban region. They have been variously interpreted as: name-plates of sorts to identify the tomb owner, decorative memorials, boundary markers for a tomb, dummy bread loaves or meat offerings, symbolic roof beams, or (for the visible circular head) depictions of the sun disk.
For another example of this tomb owner see: 72.1775.
Davies and Macadam, A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones (1957), type #73.
Translation of text:
"One honored by
Osiris, Scribe of Grain Accounting of
Amen, Overseer of Fields, Amen-
emopet, called Tja-nefer."
Transliteration:
imAxy xr
Wsir sS Hsb-it n
Imn imy-r AHwt Imn-
m-ipt Dd n.f TA-nfr
Funerary cones were components of a frieze, inserted above the doors of private tombs, particularly in the Theban region. They have been variously interpreted as: name-plates of sorts to identify the tomb owner, decorative memorials, boundary markers for a tomb, dummy bread loaves or meat offerings, symbolic roof beams, or (for the visible circular head) depictions of the sun disk.
For another example of this tomb owner see: 72.1775.
Davies and Macadam, A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones (1957), type #73.
ProvenanceProbably from Thebes (Asasif), possibly tomb 297. By 1836: Robert Hay Collection, Linplum, Scotland; 1863: to his son, Robert James Alexander Hay; 1868-1872: Way Collection, Boston (purchased by Samuel A. Way through London dealers Rollin and Feuardent, 27 Haymarket); 1872: given to the MFA by Samuel's son, C. Granville Way.
(Accession date: June 28, 1872)
(Accession date: June 28, 1872)