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Daressy #: 115

Owner: TT 249 Neferrenpet

Reasons: Inscription and provenience

Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr jrj bnrt nfr-rnpt

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, keeper of the date wine, Neferrenpet.

Date: A. III

Length: 20.20 cm (BM: EA 13878), 26.5 cm (BM: EA 9703), 14.0 x 13.2 x 5.7cm (Stewart 1986: 61).

Colours: --

Findspots:

• Unknown examples from the southern Dra Abul Naga (Northampton etc. 1908: 4, Pls. 2, 25. Exact location unknown. cf. Delgado 2005 [BAEDE 15]: 92 and Miniaci 2009: 43-45).

Remarks: 

• Davies states in his unpublished material that a large number of cones were found in TT 249, as well as two bricks bearing the same inscription as this cone (Manniche 1988b: 46).

• One brick is held in the Petrie Museum (Stewart 1986: 61).

• See also 01-136 in Davies's notebook, 05-089 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-047, 048, 051, 104, & 110 in his DALEX file 2.

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