Funerary cones were objects purely devotional, and the most consummate art could have done nothing to make them elegant.

A funerary cone consists of a long, conical mass of clay, stamped at the larger end with a few rows of hieroglyphs stating the name, parentage, and titles of the deceased, the whole surface being coated with a whitish wash.
These are simulacra of votive cakes intended for the eternal nourishment of the Double.

Many of the vases buried in tombs of this period are painted to imitate alabaster, granite, basalt, bronze, and even gold; and were cheap substitutes for those vases made in precious materials which wealthy mourners were wont to lavish on their dead.

Among those especially intended to contain water or flowers, some are covered with designs drawn in red and black (fig.

221), such as concentric lines and circles (fig.