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Owner: TT 93 Qenamun

Reasons: Inscription and provenience

Transliteration: qn-jmn jmj-rA pr n prw-nfr jmj-rA jHw n jmn-ra

Translation: Qenamun, steward of Peru-nefer, overseer of the cattle of Amun-ra.

Date: A. II

Length: 27.6cm (ROM: 993X2.63).

Colours: The face is red and the side near the head is red partly covered with white (ROM: 993X2.62 (see also here), 993X2.63). Black slip (Goddard 2012: '1951.48'). Red face and 3.4 digits of the stem (01-108 in Davies's notebook).

Findspots:

• 267 from TT 93 (Mond 1904 [ASAE 5]: 98). Unknown (these?) examples from the 'Mond's magazine (= inner hall of TT 96. See Mond 1904 [ASAE 5]: 100)' (01-108 in Davies's notebook and 04-053 in Macadam's Green file).

• One from TT 29 (Tefnin & Bavay 2008 [ASAE 82]: 368).

Remarks: 

• The body of an example housed in the ROM (993X2.63) has a flat part on its rounded side. 

• Macadam interpreted Peru-nefer as a pleasure garden or hunting lodge and game reserve of Amunhotep II (04-053 in his Green file). However, current scholarship identifies Peru-nefer as a major Egyptian military and naval base of Thutmose III and Amunhotep II, with Bietak firmly locating it at Tell el-Dab'a (Bietak 2018).

• Danilova reconstructed the genealogy of three individuals holding the title 'child of the kap': Usersatet, king's son of Kush, Kaemamun (holder of cones # 228 , # 246, and # 590), and our Qenamun. In her reconstruction, Qenamun is identified as the brother of Kaemamun's father. However, this reconstruction is hypothetical and involves substantial speculation. Further verification is necessary, particularly regarding chronological issues arising from the supposed coexistence of three generations during the reign of Amenhotep II (Danilova 2025).

• See also 05-133 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-031, 049, 099, 103, & 110 in his DALEX file 2.

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