119
Daressy #: --
Owner: TT 398 Kamose
Reasons: From the inscriptional resemblance to # 118.
Transliteration: Xrd n kAp kA-ms Dd.n=f nn-tA-wA-r=f mAa-xrw
Translation: Child of the kap, Kamose, called Nentawaeref justified.
Date: T. I (Vivó 2022: 388).
Length: --
Colours: Red (Pellegrini 1902: 150); Red face (01-044 in Davies's notebook).
Findspots: --
Remarks:
The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 118.
The inscription on both cones, # 118 and # 119, is almost identical, as is the size and the design. It can be concluded that the maker of the two cones is the same, and that they were created at the same time. However, the reason for the need for two almost identical cones remains unclear. This is a matter for further investigation.
Davies once possessed a brick (01-044 in Davies's notebook and 03-053 in Macadam's Red file).
Previously, all Egyptologists have made the connection between this cone and # 13 (Manniche 1988a: 11; Kampp 1996: 608; Strudwick and Strudwick 1996: 3, 16, 105, 113, and 155; Depauw 1997: 217 n. 3; Kondo 1998: 40; Vivó 2002: 26; Kondo et al. 2015: 32). Certainly, the names and titles attributed to the owners of this cone and those found in TT 398 are identical. In addition, a stelophorous statue of Nentawaeref (MFA: 1986.747) was discovered on or near TT 398. He is described as ‘Xrd n kAp jmj-rA wabw [n jmn?]’ and thus this certainly belongs to the owner of cone # 13 (Collins 1976 [JEA 62]: 33). However, the inscription style of this seal is completely different from that of # 13 and the examples of that cone were found far away from TT 398. As its location suggests, # 13 was most likely intended for a Khokhah tomb, but no Khokhah tombs with funerary cones are known from the period in which TT 398 is believed to have been cut. Furthermore, the Boston stela does not mention that Nentawaeref had another name, Kamose, and Kamose of cones # 118 - # 119 does not mention the title jmj-rA wabw. Boston Nentawaeref is dated to the reign of Amunhotep II because of his facial style (Brovarski 1988). The above facts indicate that the owner of # 13 was not the same person as the owner of cones # 118 - # 119. Also, again according to my own research, there were cones in the early 18th Dynasty which did not mention any gods (just like our cone). However, cones gradually became 'funerary' by inscribing the name of a god on their faces. Considering this phenomenon, # 13 is probably dated to the middle or late 18th Dynasty.
Dewachter thought that the owner was the same person as that of # 207 (Dewachter 1984 [RdE 35]: 86-87), and I think he is right, as I wrote in the 'Remarks' section of # 207. Kamose (Kemis) was the father of TT 397 Nakht (see CG 34048. Lacau 1909: 82-84).
See also 05-092, 093, & 135 in his DALEX file 1 and 06-088, 089, & 090 in his DALEX file 2.