126

Daressy #: 29

Owner: Paser (tomb undiscovered)

Reasons: --

Transliteration: sS-nswt jmj-rA Snwtj Smaw mHw [...] pA-sr mAa-xrw

Translation: King's scribe, overseer of the double granary of Upper and Lower Egypt, [...] Paser justified.

Date: --

Length: --

Colours: Red face and stem (01-039 in Davies's notebook).

Findspots:

• Unknown examples of brick of this, 125, 161, 230, 635/B.08, or 661/B.34 were found around TT 66 (Winlock and Crum 1926: 17). 

Remarks: 

• The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 125.

• 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).

• Macadam states that Davies once had a squeeze of this cone. This makes the existence of the eye-sign at the top of the third column very doubtful (03-061 in Macadam's Red file).

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

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