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Description : Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom Period, 18th to 20th Dynasty, ca. 1550 to 1070 BCE. A coarse, hand-built terracotta funerary cone with a cylindrical form, a fractured lower body, and a stamped circular face with four columns of hieroglyphic text surrounded by white pigment in low relief for a known personage from the New Kingdom. When translated, the cone reads, Overseer of the Treasury, Scribe to the King, Diehutynefer. Three small finger indentations are visible near the lower rim. Funerary cones, representing the ends of chapel roof support beams, were traditionally inserted in rows with their flat ends facing outward above the mud-brick entrances of the superstructures of non-royal tombs in Thebes. Made of fired Nile mud, cones like this example are some of our earliest written records. Most are found in the Theban Necropolis in Upper Egypt and the surrounding area, where the tradition seems to have been particularly strong. Size: 3.7 L x 2.6 W x 2.75 H (9.4 cm x 6.6 cm x 7 cm). This cone is registered in Macadam's Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones, Oxford, 1957, no. 176. Provenance: ex-private Lexington, Kentucky, USA collection, ex-private Los Angeles, California, USA collection, ex-private Ontario, Canada collection, ex-private Mathues collection, USA. The Mathues family is a husband/wife archaeological team that was invited by the Brooklyn Museum to accompany archaeologists on digs in Egypt in the 1960s, and this piece is part of their collection from one such dig. All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #139718
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