Cone-shaped "name plate" for tomb
Cone-shaped "name plate" for tomb
Cone-shaped "name plate" for tomb
Cone-shaped "name plate" for tomb

Currently not on view

Cone-shaped "name plate" for tomb,

ca. 1558–1085 BCE

Egyptian
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1550–1070 BCE
y371

Information

Title
Cone-shaped "name plate" for tomb
Dates

ca. 1558–1085 BCE

Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
h. 18.8 × diam. base 7.5 cm (7 3/8 × 2 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Prime Collection
Object Number
y371
Place Collected

Thebes

Inscription
1: imzhry hr Wsir imy-r pr 2: n hm-ntr tpy n lmn Hr- 3: -u mz'-hrw "Venerated under Osiris, the steward of the high priest of Amon, Hery, the justified (i.e. deceased)" - read by Briant Bohleke, Univ. Chicago 8/25/2000
Period
Eighteenth Dynasty
Type
ceramics, nameplates
Materials
terracotta, slip
Subject
funerary objects, cones, hieroglyphics

Originally belonged to the collection of Mr. Prime; part of the Old Collection

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