176

Daressy #: --

Owner: TT 104 Djehutynefer

Reasons: Inscription and provenience

Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr sS-nswt DHwtj-nfr mAa-xrw

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, king's scribe Djehutynefer justified.

Date: T. III (Vivó 2022: 382).

Length: 17 cm (LM: 42.18.13), 22 cm (Shedid 1988: 174), 20.5×15×5 cm (Shedid 1988: 174).

Colours: Light-brown (5 YR 6/4); coating, white (10 YR 9/1) (Shedid 1988: 174).

Findspots: 

• Five from TT 112 (01-145 in Davies's notebook).

• One from TT 297 (01-145 in Davies's notebook. This maybe 15.10.24 which is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art).

• 68 from the court of TT 104 (Shedid 1988: 174, Taf. 41 k). Two bricks from the same place (It may not be # 176. Ibid.: 174, Taf. 41 j).

• One from the court of TT 128–129 (Kondo and Ishibashi 2003 132–134, 178, Pl. 39).

• Two from TT 297 (Strudwick 2003: 22).

• One from TT 47 area (Kondo 2025, June).

Remarks: 

• Our Djehuty also has TT 80 and its cones, # 492 and # 618/A.07 (Hari 1983a).

• Djehutynefer possessed three funerary cones in total, making this an intriguing case study as we can hypothesize about the reasons behind his ownership of these multiple cones. Initially, he had cone # 176 associated with his first tomb, TT 104. However, after a subsequent promotion, he constructed a second tomb, TT 80, and created a new cone, # 492, to accompany it. Djehutynefer was married to two wives over his lifetime: the first, Takhat, and the second, Meryt. This conclusion is supported by evidence of Takhat’s name appearing in both TT 104 and TT 80, while Meryt is mentioned only in TT 80, with her figure depicted as smaller than Takhat’s (Shedid 1988: 150, Taf. 52 b). Following his marriage to Meryt, Djehutynefer produced a third cone, # 618/A.07. Similar to Neferhotep, who possessed cones # 301, # 302, and # 359, 'marriage' may not have motivated the construction of a new tomb for Djehutynefer, but it did prompt the creation of an additional funerary cone.

• See also 05-151 & 152 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-081, 102, 103, & 110 in his DALEX file 2.

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