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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:
The ascribed owner may have been identical to the owner of # 151. Eichler pointed out the possibility that this Amunhotep was identical with the owner of a stela in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Inv. # 17.2.6. Hayes 1990: 172-173, Fig. 94, Eichler 2000: 259), on which Kamis, who had # 207 (and who was probably a different individual from TT 398 Kamose called Nentawaeref, whose cones were # 13, # 118 and # 119), is inscribed.
Schlögl has proposed that the statue of Amenhotep should stylistically be dated to before the reign of Amunhotep III. Based on the fact that Amunhotep served as a mortuary priest for King Thutmose III, he suggests that this provides a terminus post quem for dating the statue. Accordingly, the statue was likely produced during the reign of King Amunhotep II, or at the latest under Thutmose IV (Schlögl 1978: 57-58). In addition, the stela of Amunhotep housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. no. 17.2.6) is also attributed to the reign of Amunhotep II. Moreover, his father, Nakht of TT 397, was a figure active during the reign of Hatshepsut. Taken together, these three pieces of evidence strongly suggest that our Amunhotep was active during the reign of Amunhotep II.
This cone is in fact the same as # 269, as Macadam once thought (cf. 01-164 in Davies's notebook; Kruck 2012: 120).
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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