106
Daressy #: --
Owner: Tjata (tomb undiscovered, perhaps at Dra Abul Naga, Asasif, or Khokhah)
Reasons: --
Transliteration: mAA ra tpj dwAyt ssn TAw nDm jmj-rA Hmwt nbt nt jmn TA-tA mAa-xrw
Translation: The one who sees the sun in the early morning and breath sweet air, overseer of all craftsmen of Amun, Tjata justified.
Date: --
Length: 16.5 x 11.5 x 8.5cm (CAA 1984: # 5210); 22 x 17 x 8 diminishing to 5cm (01-080 in Davies's notebook).
Colours: Red face and 4.1 digits of the stem with thick white over this (01-080 in Davies's notebook).
Findspots:
Davies bought # 105, # 106, and # 131 together, and they are said to have come from Mandara hill (at Dra Abul Naga, where TT 333 is located on. 01-080 in Davies's notebook and 04-101 in Macadam's Green file).
Remarks:
The Pelizaeus Museum holds one brick type (CAA 1984: # 5210). Two other bricks are in a private collection in south Texas (Van Siclen and Ryan 1991 [VA (7(1))]: 50-51). Davies notes a wedge-shaped brick with four seal impressions, and the Kees collection also has a half brick of 7 cm length (01-080 in Davies's notebook and 04-101 in Macadam's Green file).
For the unusual writing ra in the first column, see Glanville 1929 [JEA 15]: 7-8, Pl. II.
What cones # 105, # 106 and # 131 have in common is that their inscriptions begin with an unusual phrase and that the last (4th) column contains the name of the owner with the word 'justified'. This could support the idea that these three were made by the same person, i.e. almost simultaneously.
According to Helck, A 100 in the Louvre belonged to him (Helck 1961: (46)).
See also 05-146 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-070 in his DALEX file 2.