139
Daressy #: 110
Owner: TT 155 Intef
Reasons: Inscription and provenience
Transliteration: jmAxy xr jnpw tpj Dw=f wHmw-nswt jn-jtj mAa-xrw
Translation: Revered one before Anubis who is upon his mountain, king's herald, Intef justified.
Date: Hat - T. III (Papyrus preserved in the Louvre (E. 3226) states that Seshi or Neshi, who had # 138 that presumably was made by the same person, was in his office in the year 30 of Thutmose III (Megally 1977: 271-273). Auenmüller also dates this cone to the same period (Auenmüller 2013: 895). Polz, however, dates it to Hat. Polz 2007: 291).
Length: --
Colours: Red face (Munsell: 7.5R 5/8) and grey body (Munsell: 7.5R N 4/0. Naguib 1987 [BSÉG 11]: 78).
Findspots:
Together with # 182 , 12 from the tomb A. 2 (Gauthier 1908 [BIFAO 6]: 127–128).
Together with # 182, 50 from the north of TT 155 (01-133 in Davies's notebook and 04-003 in Macadam's Green file).
One from the 'tombeau suspendu' in the Valley of the Kings (Gabolde et al. 1994 [BIFAO 94]: 180, 226, Pl. IX). Gabolde et al. suggest that this example was later used as a stopper for a jar because it was found among the broken remains (Gabolde et al. 1994 [BIFAO 94]: 226 n. 97).
Remarks:
The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 182.
From the inscription and its proximity to other excavations, we can deduce that the maker of this cone is the same as that of # 138, and that the owners of the two were therefore active at the same time and related to each other. This cone also appears to have been formed on a turning wheel (see 01-133 in Davies's notebook and 04-003 in the Macadam's Green file). Note, however, that the one in the Brooklyn Museum (acc. no. 16.580.216) does not appear to have been made on a wheel).
Other hollow cones like this are # 134, # 138 and # 215. Davies states that # 550 also has a hollow body, but the inner wall is very rough, so it was not made with wheels. It was also known that one of the many examples of # 406 has a hollow body with a concentric track inside (Kondo et al. 2017: 53, 55).
Vivó thinks that the internal cavity of # 139, # 406, and # 550 were not intentional but accidental (Vivó 2022: 16, n. 7).
For more detailed prosopographic data, see Auenmüller 2013: 895.
See also 05-026 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-045, 046, 104, & 109 in his DALEX file 2.