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Daressy #: --
Owner: TT 55 Ramose
Reasons: Inscription and provenience
Transliteration: dwA=k ra sp 2 tp dwAyt jrj-pat smr watj HAtj-a xntj wrw jmj-rA njwt TAtj ra-ms mAa-xrw
Translation: You shall praise Re, you shall praise Re in the early morning, hereditary noble, sole companion, mayor, foremost of the great ones, overseer of the town, vizier, Ramose justified.
Date: A. III – Akh.
Length: --
Colours: Red face and part of the stem. the stem also has a white (01-081 in Davies's notebook).
Findspots:
Two from the court of TT 106 (01-081 in Davies's notebook and 04-099 in Macadam's Green file).
Unknown examples from the 'Mond's magazine (= inner hall of TT 96. See Mond 1904 [ASAE 5]: 100)' (01-081 in Davies's notebook and 04-099 in Macadam's Green file).
Seven from the court of TT 23 (Collins 1976 [JEA 62]: 34).
One from the TT 128 - TT 129 area (Note that Al-Adly, who lived next to TT 128 and TT 129, had once been a guard of TT 55. Kondo and Ishibashi 2003: 135, 178).
One from the TT 47 area (Kondo 2017, October 29).
Remarks:
The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 133 and # 694/B.67.
The dimensions, design, findspots, textual content and inscription style of # 132, # 133, and # 694/B.67 suggest that the maker of the three is the same and that they were created at the same time. The rationale behind the necessity for three (or four, if we have a counterpart of # 694/B.67?) cones, despite the similarities in their contents, remain unclear and require further investigation.
Ramose's father was Heby who had # 15 (cf. Helck 1958: 302-303).
Davies stated that the owner may have been the husband of Merytptah who had # 617/A.06. (Davies 1941: 1). However, considering the symmetrical designs of the cones of other pairs, such as # 295 - # 309, # 298 - # 312, # 308 - # 340, # 572 - # 578, and # 644/B.17 - # 645/B.18, it is strange that our Merytptah had only one cone and the design is different from that of her husband. Davies's idea is not yet confirmed.
For more detailed prosopographic data, see Auenmüller 2013: 823-824.
See also 05-098 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-031, 046, 057, 058, 061, 093, & 101, & 110 in his DALEX file 2.
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