125

Daressy #: 23

Owner: Paser (tomb undiscovered)

Reasons: --

Transliteration: sS-nswt jmj-rA pr n jmn m Snwt nt Htp-nTr pA-sr mAa-xrw

Translation: King's scribe, steward of Amun in the granary of divine offerings, Paser justified.

Date: --

Length: --

Colours: White over red face (01-038 in Davies's notebook).

Findspots:

• One from Dra Abul Naga (Penn Museum's website), but according to the object register book entitled 'D. A. N. 1-1485' housed in the Penn Museum, he found two (Nos. 42 and 409/29-86-646. The object register card states that the latter was found in the 'court of brick tomb 3').

• Unknown examples of brick of this, 126, 161, 230, 635/B.08, or 661/B.34 from around TT 66 (Winlock and Crum 1926: 17).

Remarks: 

• The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 126.

• The inscriptions on # 125 and # 126 indicate that they were created by the same individual and thus around the same period. These cones have distinct titles and do not share any common titles except for sS-nswt. Therefore, it seems that Paser sought to display all of their titles on the cones, which may explain why he had two cones.

• Diego Espinel pointed out the possibility that our Paser was the one and the same person mentioned on stela C65 that is preserved in the Louvre (Diego Espinel 2020: 106 n. 27). The name 'Paser' is now chiselled out, but Drioton confirms his name (Drioton 1933 [Rd'É 1]: 26).

• Davies thinks a horizontal sign below a sign of an owl can be a scroll sign (Y1), a mouth sign (D21), or a door bolt sign (O34), or just an accidental flaw (01-038 in Davies's notebook). Macadam supported the last idea (03-062 in Macadam's Red file).

• See also 05-049, 050, & 051 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-049, 072, 081, & 087 in his DALEX file 2.

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