Funerary cone

During the New Kingdom, the cones were smaller in size and inscribed in hieroglyphs with the title and name of the tomb owner, often with a short prayer.

[2] The exact purpose of the cones is unknown, but hypotheses exist that they variously served as passports, architectural features, and symbolic offerings, among others.

[3][4] Fragments of seventeen terracotta cones were found at the 2nd millennium BC site of al-Moghraqa in the Gaza Strip.

[5] Funerary cones were first organized into a corpus by Davies and Macadam (1957).

[7] In the 21st century, Dibley and Lipkin (2009) and Zenihiro (2009) have compiled more complete publications, with Theis (2017) contributing additional cones from books, articles, auction and exhibition catalogues for consideration.