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Daressy #: --

Owner: -396- Amunhotep (Huy)

Reasons: Provenience

Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr jrj-pat jmn-Htp Dd.n=f Hwy pA n Dl m rk tpj-tA jr.n sAb Hpw

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, hereditary noble Amunhotep, called Huy, praised in the whole of Egypt, born of sab, Hepu.

Date: A. III

Length: --

Colours: Red face (01-027 in Davies's notebook); With a dark grey core and a very thin reddish margin (Teeter et al. 2003: 173).

Findspots:

One from Medinet Habu and another one from a little further south (01-027 in Davies's notebook and 03-075 in Macadam's Red file).
One from Medinet Habu (Teeter et al. 2003: 173).
Together with # 40 and # 65, a total of over 200 from the tomb -396- (Reyad 2015: 150).

Remarks:

Davies_cone_028_2, a squeeze preserved in the Griffith Institute, Oxford, may have been made with a brick, as it shows two seal impressions.
The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 40, # 65, and # 622/A.11.
It is relatively rare for one person to have four different types of cone. However, it is not clear why he has four different types of cones, or why he needs them. Moreover, each of the four types has only similar titles written on it, even though he had other high-ranking titles, and it is clear that the reason is not because "the area of the cone is small and I wanted to write down all the high-ranking titles that I have a lot of, which should appeal to others, but I couldn't, so I created four and wrote down different high-ranking titles for each of the four".
For pA n Dl m rk tpj-tA, see Varille 1968: 106–111, but Macadam takes it as a name and reads 'pA n DAn...(He of Djal...(?))' (05-021 & 048 in his DALEX file 1).
For a detailed review of the research history of the identification of tomb -396- as the tomb of Amenhotep son of Hapu, together with a reassessment based on funerary cones and other archaeological evidence, see Vivó 2025.
See also 03-076 in Macadam's Red file, 05-101, 102, & 103 in his DALEX file 1, and 06-061, 080, & 110 in his DALEX file 2.

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