Funerary cone fragment of reddish clay with tapering cone element broken off and missing. Head end carries a stamp with four divided columns of hieroglyphic text which identifies the owner as “One Honored by Osiris, Master of Copper/Coppersmiths (?) of the house of the God’s Wife Huwebenef, True-of-Voice” (imAxy xr Wsir Hry biA/Hmwt (?) n pr Hmt-nTr hw-wbn.f mAa xrw).

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.

Davies and Macadam, A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones (1957), type #58.