The "funerary cones", which appeared from the 11th Dynasty onwards, particularly at Thebes, are in fact a special form of seals presenting at their base a short offering formula or more simply the titles and the name of the deceased. One does not only find them inside or near the tombs of the beneficiaries, but also in the sanctuaries where the offerings in favour of the gods were also reserved for the deceased. This example, which was part of the G. Hagemans collection, is in the name of the "great Chief Official of the divine adoratrice" Ibi, whose tomb is found in the necropolis of Assasif.
L. Speleers, Recueil des inscriptions égyptiennes des Musées Royaux du Cinquantenaire à Bruxelles, Bruxelles 1923, 48 nº 180
R. Moss, Some Rubbings of Egyptian Monuments made a Hundred Years ago, JEA 27 (1941) 11
L.-A. Christophe, Un monument inédit du grand majordome de Nitocris, Aba, ASAE 53 (1955) 52 n. 6
N. de Garis Davies et M. Laming Macadam, A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones, Oxford 1957, nº 640
B. van de Walle, L. Limme et H. De Meulenaere, La collection égyptienne. Les étapes marquantes de son développement, Bruxelles 1980, 45
E. Graefe, Untersuchungen zur Verwaltung und Geschichte der Institution der Gottesgemahlin des Amun vom Beginn des Neuen Reiches bis zur Spätzeit, Wiesbaden 1981, I 21-25
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