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Daressy #: 9

Owner: C. 4 Merymaat

Reasons: Inscription and provenience

Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr wab n mAat mry-mAat mAa-xrw m Xrt-nTr snt=f mrt=f nbt pr majA mAa-xrw

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, wab-priest of Maat Merymaat, justified in the Necropolis, his wife whom he loves, mistress of the house, Maia justified.

Date: A. III

Length: --

Colours: Red face (01-020 in Davies's notebook).

Findspots: 

• Two from TT 112 and one from below TT 71 (01-020 in Davies's notebook and 03-083 in Macadam's Red file. Note that Jelf recorded that Whittaker had unearthed only one example in TT 112 (Jelf MSS: 54)).

• One from TT 325 (Bruyère 1927: 57).

• Six from C. 4 (Manniche 1988: 102).

• A total of three from TT 65 and from C. 4 (Bács 2017: 32-36).

Remarks: 

• While PM introduces Amunhotep as the only wife of Merymaat, according to the inscription copied by Champollion, Manniche suggests two other possibilities: either Amunhotep was the wife of another person or Merymaat had two wives (Manniche 1988: 102).

• See also 05-058, 059, 070, 071, & 106 in Macadam's DALEX file 2.

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