The funerary cone was an ancient Egyptian clay or terracotta artefact placed over the entrance to a tomb. For a long time, this archaeological find was listed as a “loom weight from Este”. It was actually found at the necropolis in Thebes and dates back to the 18th Dynasty of Egypt before the reign of Thutmose III (1479-1424 BC). The translated hieroglyphic text reads: His wife, the chantress Merytra; the second prophet of Menkheperra, Kaemamun. A statue of Kaemamun housed in the museum in Leiden, in the Netherlands, has him as the son of Queen Henuttawy and thus of royal lineage.
