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Daressy #: --

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

Reasons: --

Transliteration: jmj-st-a n jmn jmn-Htp sA k[...]msy

Translation: Acolyte of Amun, Amunhotep, born of K[...]msy.

Date: A. II (see 'Remarks' section below).

Length: --

Colours: Much white over red face and 1.4 digits of the stem (01-105 in Davies's notebook).

Findspots:

• Unknown examples from the southern Dra Abul Naga (Northampton etc. 1908: 4, Pls. 2, 25. Exact location unknown. cf. Delgado2005 [BAEDE 15]: 92).

• Two from the court of TT 14 (Chassinat 1910 [BIFAO 7]: 159–160).

• Two from TT 11–12 area (Galán and Borrego 2006 [Memnonia 17]: 207).

• A total of three from Dra Abul Naga (Kruck 2012: 120).

Remarks: 

• This cone is in fact the same as # 269, as Macadam once thought (cf. 01-164 in Davies's notebook; Kruck 2012: 120).

• The ascribed owner may have been identical to the owner of # 151.

• [MET Amunhotep] The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a stela of a certain Amunhotep (Inv. # 17.2.6. Hayes 1990: 172-173, Fig. 94), On this stela, Amunhotep is identified as the son of Bak and the paternal grandson of Kamis. This Amunhotep held several Hm-kA titles including Hm-kA n nTr nfr mn-xpr-ra, as well as the titles jrj-at n jmn, Hrj-mrt n jmn, jmj-rA xnt n jmn, jmj-rA Snwtj n jmn, and jmj-st-a n jmn Hrj-sA 2 nw. The MET dates this stela to the reign of Amunhotep II.
  [Uriage Amunhotep] There is also a statue of a certain Amunhotep in Uriage. Its titles include jmj-st-a n jmn, Hrj-sA tpj jmn, among others. This Amunhotep had a father named [...]abu ([...]Abw) and a mother, Tuiu (twjw) (Dunham 1940 [JEA 26]).
  [München Amunhotep] In addition, there is a statue of a certain Amunhotep  preserved in München (Schlögl 1978: 57-58). This Amunhotep was jmj-rA xntjw-S n jmn. Schlögl proposed, on stylistic grounds, that the statue should be dated to before the reign of Amunhotep III. Since Amunhotep served as a mortuary priest of King Thutmose III, Schlögl suggested that this provides a terminus post quem for the statue. Accordingly, he concluded that it was most likely produced during the reign of Amunhotep II, or at the latest under Thutmose IV (Schlögl 1978: 57-58).
  Schlögl and Eichler pointed out the possibility that München Amunhotep was identical with the MET Amunhotep, and Eichler further suggested that that Amunhotep might also be the same individual as the owner of cone # 198 (Schlögl 1978: 57; Eichler 2000: 259). However, this creates a contradiction: whereas # 198 states that Amunhotep’s father was K[...]msy, the MET stela identifies Amunhotep’s father as Bak.

• Are the Kamis on MET stela, the K[...]msy on # 198, and K(a)mis on # 207 the same person? The latter was probably a different individual from TT 398 Kamose called Nentawaeref, whose cones were # 118 and # 119.

• For a possible reconstruction of Amunhotep’s family tree, see Habachi 1968: 56.

• See also 04-059 in Macadam's Green file, 05-024 & 158 in his DALEX file 1, and 06-029 & 077 in his DALEX file 2.

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