New Book: Egyptian Funerary Cones

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Thanks to Ingebork Waanders for letting me know about the above recently published book.


A Compendium of EGYPTIAN Funerary Cones
A book by Gary Dibley and Bron Lipkin (c) 2009

Egyptian funerary cones were used on the facade of some tombs of high ranking officials buried in the Theban necropolis from the 18th to the 26th dynasty.

Cones have stamped hieroglyphic impressions on their bases giving details of the owner's name and title[s] and are a valuable information resource for Egyptologists.

In 1957 M.F. Laming Macadam published the work of the late N. de Garis Davies in a book titled A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones. He provided 611 facsimile drawings of cones known at the time. It had been his intention to produce a further study of the texts and to match cones to known tombs but sadly this never occurred.

We hope that this publication will go some way to filling this void, as a book that will be of use to scholars and laymen alike.

The facsimile drawings within this book are reproduced with a transliteration and translation of the owner’s name, title[s] and any other information provided on the cone with a note of the tomb number if known. The index contains a referenced Tabulation of information regarding each cone. A further number of cones which have been published or located since the publication of Macadam’s book are added to the corpus.