15
Daressy #: 10
Owner: Heby (tomb undiscovered, perhaps at Dra Abul Naga)
Reasons: --
Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr sS Hsb jHw n jmn spAwt Smaw mHw Hby mAa-xrw sA sS Hsb jHw n jmn sn-ms mAa-xrw ms.n nbt pr rwjA
Translation: Revered one before Osiris, scribe of accounts of cattle of Amun and of the Nomos of Upper and Lower Egypt, Heby justified, born of the scribe of accounts of cattle of Amun, Senmose justified and mistress of the house Ruia.
Date: T. IV (Auenmüller 2013: 942).
Length: 22cm (Museo Archeologico di Firenze: 6689. Pellegrini 1902: 149), 23cm (Museo Archeologico di Firenze: 6690. Pellegrini 1902: 149). Size of a brick: 21 x 16 x 9cm (01-021 in Davies's notebook).
Colours: Face with white background (LM: 1973.1.338); White over red all over (01-021 in Davies's notebook); White slipped face (SK203-00-000).
Findspots:
14 from Dra Abul Naga (Gauthier 1908 [BIFAO 6]: 124).
Unknown examples from southern Dra Abul Naga (Northampton etc. 1908: 4, Pls. 2, 25. Exact location unknown. cf. Delgado 2005 [BAEDE 15]: 92).
One each from TT 378 and near TT 18 (01-021 in Davies's notebook, 03-082 in Macadam's Red file).
Two from Armant (Drower and Myers 1940: Vol. 1 p. 101).
One brick from TT 149 (Kampp 1996: 437).
One from the bottom of the hill to the north of the ghaffirs' hut at Dra Abul Naga (Ockinga 2003 [RFEA / N 86]: 2).
Three from the Valley of the Kings (Dorn and Paulin-Grothe 2009 [GM 222]: 11).
Five from the 'Areal A' in Dra Abul Naga (Kruck 2012: 106).
One from TT 47 area (Kondo 2017, October 29. According to Kondo et al. 2016 November, however, two examples).
One (surface find) below TT 139 and TT 255 (Binder 2024: 87).
One each from TT 149 and TT 233 (Binder 2024: 87-88).
Remarks:
Davies (?) once had three bricks and Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung also has one (or several) examples (01-021 in Davies's notebook and 03-082 in Macadam's Red file).
Because she found a brick among the collapsed bricks in the courtyard of TT 149, Kampp pointed out the possibility that our cone had once belonged to the first owner of TT 149 (Kampp 1996: 437).
Senmose, who appears on the wall of TT 147, could be the same individual whose name is inscribed on our cone (Ockinga 2003 [RFEA / N 86]: 2). Also, he is depicted in a fragment of the wall painting from Heby's tomb (Mekhitarian 1985: 241, Pl. Vb).
It is uncertain whether our Heby is the same person as Neby, the father of TT 55 Ramose (cf. Binder 2024: 87-88).
See also 05-099, 103, & 124 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-031 & 032 in his DALEX file 2.