26 Proceedings of the Royal Trish Academy. 
X.—On a Founerrat Conn, BEaRIne aN Lyscriprion oF TrrmaKan. 
By Avexanper Macatister, M.D., Professor of Anatomy, Univer- 
sity of Dublin. 
[Read May 24th, 1880. ] 
A sHort time ago I laid before the Academy a notice of the inscrip- 
tion on a Funereal Cone of the 18th Dynasty, which I found in the 
Museum of the University of Dublin. In the same drawer with that 
specimen I found a second, but very dissimilar cone, in many respects 
more interesting, though much more modern than the former. 
I regret much that I have failed to trace either specimen to its 
original source. I can only find that both specimens were in the 
Museum more than forty years ago; and as the dates of the presenta- 
tions of Egyptian objects to the Museum which are recorded are 1785, 
1820, and 1835, I suppose that both these cones were among the 
unspecified Egyptian relics presented at one or other cf the earlier 
dates. 
The second cone is not nearly so well preserved as is that of 
User-ha, and contrasts with it in most respects. It is much shorter, 
with a broader disk and a more acute point; that of User-ha measures 
82 inches in length and 22 inches in the diameter of its disk; while 
the cone under notice is only a little over 5 inches in length, and its 
disk measures 3+ inches in diameter. M. Mariette-Bey gives 74 inches 
as the length of those in the Museum at Boulagq}, and Sir G. Wilkin- 
son refers to some nearly a foot in length. 
The material of the second cone is finer than that of the first, and 
harder. They are both made of an ochreous clay, mixed with fine 
ashes, but there is much less of the ashy ingredient in the second than 
in the first. They have both been burnt, and are fairly hard. In the 
second cone, the ochreous colour seems to permeate the whole sub- 
stance, while the cone of User-ha is much yellower, and has had its 
lower end dipped_in some reddish staining fluid, which has irregularly 
dyed its disk and the surrounding part for rather less than two inches, 
as in the cone figured by Sir G. Wilkinson.? 
This cone was powdered over its disk with a fine white dust, 
which has closely adhered to it. The inscription, as on the cone 
of User-ha, is one of raised hieroglyphs, evidently produced by the 
cone being pressed against an incised mould ; and, in both, the marks 
of the fingers and thumb of the maker still remain—the fine clay 
retaining, in the second cone, even the impression of the papillary 
ridges of the thumb of the potter, who must have had an unusually 
small hand. 
1 Notice des principaux Monuments a Boulag, p. 176. Cairo, 1876. 
2 Ancient Egyptians, 1878, vol. iii. p. 437, Fig. 630, No. 3. 
