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Daressy #: 106

Owner: A.3 Ruru

Reasons: Inscription and provenience

Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr wr n mDAw rwrw mAa-xrw

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, chief of the medjay, Ruru justified.

Date: --

Length: 25cm (KhM: 1711. Personal communication with the staff of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. 10th Mar. 2008), 25.5cm (BM: EA 35650)

Colours: Yellow clay, faces sometimes red, sometimes pink (01-131 in Davies's notebook and 04-006 in Macadam's Green file). Pink (Lizana 1984: 180).

Findspots:

• Unknown examples from the well near TT 18 (01-131 in Davies's notebook and 04-006 in Macadam's Green file).

• Unknown examples from the temple of Ramesses IV, at the foot of the Hatshepsut causeway (01-131 in Davies's notebook and 04-006 in Macadam's Green file).

• 19 from Dra Abul Naga (Gauthier 1908 [BIFAO 6]: 128–129).

• One from TT 20 (Davies 1913a: 5).

• One from 'Areal A' at Dra Abul Naga (Kruck 2012: 95).

• One from the tomb -150- (Beabesh 2017: 69-70).

• One each from TT 148 and TT 149 (Binder 2024: 22 and 89).

Remarks: 

• There is also a brick (MFA Boston: 72.1811) and a prism type (Galán 1998: 44).

• There seems to be a variant type. See the images Davies_cone_205_2 & 3 below.

• See also 05-100 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-058 & 106 in his DALEX file 2.

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