Funerary Cone of Padineith

Title: Funerary Cone of Padineith

Period: Late Period

Dynasty: Dynasty 26

Reign: reign of Wahibre/pontificate of Ankhnesneferibre

Date: ca. 595–525 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Egypt Exploration Fund excavations; Probably from Tomb of Padineith (TT 197)

Medium: Pottery

Dimensions: L. 18.4 × Dia. 10.7 cm (7 1/4 × 4 3/16 in.)

Credit Line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1897

Accession Number: 97.4.4

Egypt Exploration Fund excavations in Asasif. Acquired by the EEF in the division of finds. Given by the EEF to the Museum for its contribution to the excavations, 1897.

Daressy, Georges Emile Jules 1893. "Recueil de cones funéraires." In Mémoires publiés par les membres de la Mission archéologique française au Caire. Paris: Ernest Leroux, no. 159.

Gillett, Charles R. Rev. 1898. Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in Halls 3 and 4, Metropolitan Museum of Art Handbook, 4. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 147, no. 2186.

Davies, Norman de Garis 1957. A corpus of inscribed Egyptian funerary cones. Oxford: Oxford University Press, no. 391.

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