A TERRACOTTA STAMPED FUNERARY CONE FOR THE VICEROY OF KUSH, MERI-MOSE SON OF AMENOPHIS III

REIGN OF AMENOPHIS III, 1390-1353 B.C.

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A TERRACOTTA STAMPED FUNERARY CONE FOR THE VICEROY OF KUSH, MERI-MOSE SON OF AMENOPHIS III
REIGN OF AMENOPHIS III, 1390-1353 B.C.
Bearing three lines of hieroglyphs, 2½ in. (6.7 cm.) diam.; and two other terracotta stamped funerary cones for The Royal Craftsman Nebseny, bearing an inscription ''Praising of Re from his rising in glory until his setting'', both Dynasty XVIII (1550-1070 B.C.), 3.1/8 in. (7.9 cm.) diam. max. (3)

Provenance

Item one: Tomb 383, Qurnet Murai'i, Thebes.

Exhibited

Dunrobin Castle Museum, Sutherland, Scotland.

Lot Essay

Item one: cf. B. Porter and R. L. B. Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings: The Theban Necropolis Part 1. Private Tombs, Oxford, 1970, p. 436, no. 383 for the tomb reference; and M. L. F. Macadam (ed.), A Corpus of Inscribed Funerary Cones, Part I, Oxford, 1957, nos. 169- 170 (similar to item one) and no. 373 (similar to items two and three).

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