A funerary cone with complete inscription on four columns. During the 11th Dynasty (2130-1990 B.C.) in Necropolis of Thebes, it was customary to decorate the upper part of the front of tombs with two or more rows of cones placed side by side in the ground, the points facing the interior, with the ends being for the most part circular. These cones were fired and tend to be quite rough and have a brown or reddish-brown color, having a maximum length of 30cm and a diameter between 6 and 10cm.
During the middle empire the bottoms of the cones were without any decoration, but towards the end of the 17th Dynasty the owners of the Thebes tombs began to engrave their names and titles with a stamp, most likely made of hard wood in the shape of a circle or in more rare cases an oval. This practice, limited to Thebes, occurred only at the end of the dynasty and was more or less a success. These cones provide an important list of names and titles and also provide us with much information that was before unknown. The inscription is as follows; "The blessed close to Osiris, the bookkeeper of the wheat of Amon, Wenamon, juste de voix close to Amon".
300/500 Sold $241.50
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