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Daressy #: 285

Owner: Amunhotep (tomb undiscovered, perhaps at Dra Abul Naga)

Reasons: --

Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr nby n jmn jmn-Htp Hmt=f nbt pr nfrt-jry

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, goldsmith of Amun, Amunhotep, his wife, mistress of the house, Neferetiry.

Date: --

Length: 20.0 cm, 24.6 cm (Kruck 2012: 67), 22.5 x 22.0 x 7.0cm (Ibid.: 67)

Colours: --

Findspots:

• One from TT 11–12 area (Galán and Borrego 2006 [Memnonia 17]: 208).

• Seven from the 'Areal E' and the monastery at Deir el Bakhit in Dra Abul Naga. Five of them were pyramidal and the remaining two were brick (Kruck 2012: 113).

Remarks: 

• Davies once had a brick in his collection (01-151 in Davies's notebook) and acc. no. 30.6.38 housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art may be the one. A brick is held in a private collection in south Texas (Van Siclen and Ryan 1991 [VA (7(1))]: 44).

• 'A square cone' (=30.6.38 in the MMA?) is said to come from Esna (01-151 in Davies's notebook).

• The 'nby n jmn jmn-Htp' inscribed on the rock at Bir Menih (Green 1909 [PSBA 31]: Pls. XXXIII, XXXV) may have been identical with the owner of this cone.

• See also 05-024 & 091 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-060 in his DALEX file 2.

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