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Lot 98
DEUX CÔNES FUNÉRAIRES EN TERRE CUITE
Égypte, Nouvel Empire, ca. 1550-1069 ap. J.C. 2
12 December 2025, 11:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche€2,000 - €2,500
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DEUX CÔNES FUNÉRAIRES EN TERRE CUITE
Égypte, Nouvel Empire, ca. 1550-1069 ap. J.C.
Égypte, Nouvel Empire, ca. 1550-1069 ap. J.C.
TWO EGYPTIAN TERRACOTTA FUNERARY CONES
New Kingdom, circa 1550-1069 B.C.
The larger cone for child of the harem, Kamose who was also called Nensepwat, Thebes tomb no. 398.
The smaller cone, 18th Dynasty, for Menkheperre-Sonb, heredetary prince, noble treasurer of the king of Lower Egypt, High priest of Amun.
20 cm (7 7/8 in.) and 8 cm (3 1/8 in.) long (2)
Footnotes
Provenance
The cone for Kamose:
Hilton Price Collection, London.
Sotheby's 17 July 1911, lot 751.
Antiquités Égyptiennes Drouot, Paris, 7 March 1977, lot 95, where it is noted: F.G. Hilton Price. A catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the possession of F.G. Hilton Price, vol. II (London 1908) p. 24 no. 4197.
Private collection, Belgium, acquired at the above sale in 1977.
See N. d. G. Davies and M. F. L. Macadam, A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones, Oxford, 1957, no. 118 & 119.
There is another example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, obj. no. 30.6.112.
The smaller cone for Menkheperre-Sonb:
1972, Ede List 86 N° 40.
Private collection Belgium, the purchase recorded in a March 1985 insurance document.
Menkheperre-Sonb was high priest of Amun under Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III and seems to have survived into the reign of Amenophis II. Unusually he had two tombs at Thebes TT86 and TT112. See N. d. G. Davies and M. F. L. Macadam, A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones, Oxford, 1957, no. 100.
There is another cone for Menkheperre-Sonb in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 13.180.66.