13

Daressy #: 116

Owner: Nentawaeref (tomb undiscovered, perhaps at Khokhah)

Reasons: --

Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr Xrd n kAp jmj-rA wabw n jmn nn-tA-wA-r=f mAa-xrw

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, child of the kap, overseer of the wab-priests of Amun, Nentawaeref justified.

Date: --

Length: --

Colours: There are traces of red under white (01-024 in Davies's notebook).

Findspots: 

• One from TT 201 (01-024 in Davies's notebook, 03-079 in Macadam's Red file).

• Two from near TT 253 (Strudwick and Strudwick 1996: 105, 155).

• Unknown examples from TT 257 (Mostafa 1995: 79).

• Five from TT 47 area (Kondo 2025, June).

Remarks: 

• Egyptologists have long recognized a connection between cone # 13 and cones # 118 - 119 from TT 398 (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). Furthermore, Kees and Dewachter proposed that the owner Nentawaeref was identical not only to the owner of cones # 118 - 119 but also to the owner of cone # 207 (Kees 1953: 21; Kees 1958: 8; Dewachter 1984 [RdE 35]: 86-87). This hypothesis is primarily based on similarities in names and titles. In support of this view, a stelophorous statue of Nentawaeref in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA: 1986.747), discovered in or near TT 398, is often cited. The statue bears the title xrd n kAp jmj-rA wabw [n jmn?] and is clearly attributable to the owner of # 13 (Collins 1976 [JEA 62]: 33).
  However, several significant discrepancies cast doubt on this identification. The inscription style of # 13 is markedly different from that of # 118 - 119, which are firmly associated with TT 398. Likewise, the inscription on # 207 is distinct from both of these groups. Moreover, # 13 appears to have been intended for a tomb in the Khokhah area, as suggested by its findspots (see above); multiple examples of it have been found densely distributed far from TT 398, which is located at Qurna. Added to this, # 207 was found in Dra Abu el-Naga, a distinct area separate from both Qurna and Khokhah, where cones # 118 - 119 and # 13 are respectively associated. This geographical separation suggests that cone # 207 may have originally belonged to a different tomb and, by extension, to a different individual. However, as only a single example of cone # 207 has been discovered to date, this interpretation remains tentative.
  The Boston statue itself complicates the narrative further. It does not include the alternative name Kamose, which is associated with # 118 - 119. Conversely, Kamose—presumed owner of cones # 118 - 119—does not bear the title jmj-rA wabw.
  Regarding chronology, funerary cones in the early 18th Dynasty, typically omit divine names, like # 118 - 119, a pattern that gradually changed as cones became more explicitly funerary in nature, like # 13 (Zenihiro 2023: 690 and 695). Stylistically, the Boston statue has been dated to the reign of Amenhotep II, based on facial features (Brovarski 1988), or alternatively to the reign of Amenhotep III (Berteaux 2005: 88 n. 612; 348). Bernhauer and Seyr, in their typological study of stelophorous statues, classify the Boston example as type S.I, which first appears under Hatshepsut and Thutmose III (Bernhauer and Seyr 2023: 52). Accordingly, cone # 13 likely dates to the mid-to-late 18th Dynasty. As for cone # 207, it appears to date, t the reign of Thutmose I, since its owner, Kamis, was the father of Nakht, who was active during the reign of Hatshepsut (see Nakht’s cone # 235).
  Therefore, it can be stated with confidence that the owner of cone # 13 was different from those of cones # 118 - 119, and also from the owner of cone # 207. The identification of a single individual as the owner of both # 118 - 119 and # 207 is also highly questionable, as discussed in the 'Remarks' section for cone # 207.

• See also 05-092 & 093 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-041, 042, 088, 089, & 090 in his DALEX file 2.

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