
Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum
Funerary Cone of Usy
1973.1.334
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Pottery funerary cone, stamped on the round end with the name and title of the deceased. The hieroglyphic inscription reads: “Revered one before Osiris, scribe of accounts of the grain of the lord of the Two Lands, Usy justified" [jmAxy xr Asjr sS Hsb jt n nb-tAwj wsy mAa-xrw]. The inscription is chipped with the left side of the last two rows missing.
CONDITION NOTE (1998): Incomplete, surface dirt, chipped, holed.
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum accession no. 26745 (2 funerary cones). Purchased at Stevens's, London, 4 September 1923, Lot 282.