Grave cone
Grave cones are conical clay nails that were attached to the facade of graves, especially in Thebes-West, in large numbers next to each other , especially in the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom . Its flat front bears the title and name of the owner of the grave, and prayers are less common. The first grave cones date to the 11th dynasty , but are unlabeled. They are attested until the 26th dynasty . Their function is controversial. The longest specimens are about 50 cm long, but most are slightly smaller. About 400 different types of grave cones are known to date, but only about 80 of them can be assigned to a known grave.
literature
- Kento Zenihiro: The Complete Funerary Cones. Kento Zenihiro, Tokyo 2009, ISBN 978-4-89630-246-2 .
- Hans Bonnet : grave cone. In: Lexicon of Egyptian Religious History. Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , p. 260.
- Norman de Garis Davies , Miles Frederick Laming Macadam: A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1957 (corpus of all copies known and labeled up to 1957).
Web links
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