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Daressy #: 3

Owner: Nakhtmin (tomb undiscovered, perhaps at Khokhah)

Reasons: --

Transliteration: Asjr wab Xrj-Hbt n mwt nxt-mnw, wab n HAt jt-nTr n mwt nxt-mnw, sS mDAt-nTr n mwt nxt-mnw mAa-xrw, sS Htp-nTr n mwt nxt-mnw mAa-xrw, Asjr

Translation: Osiris, wab-priest and lector-priest of Mut Nakhtmin, wab-priest to the front, god's father of Mut, Nakhtmin, scribe of the divine books of Mut, Nakhtmin justified, scribe of the divine offerings of Mut Nakhtmin justified, Osiris.

Date: 19th - 20th dynasty.

Length: --

Colours: Red face (01-004 in Davies's notebook).

Findspots: 

• One from TT 106 (03-102 in Macadam's Red file). 

• One from Deir el-Bahri (Pomorska 1966; Lipinska 1968 [ASAE 60]: 173–174, 204). 

• One (Inv. no. EA 49527 housed in the British Museum) from Deir el Bahari (cf. the museum's webpage here).

• One (Inv. no. A.1905.279.1 housed in the National Museums of Scotland) from Deir el Bahari.

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

Remarks: 

• The tomb of Nakhtmin may plausibly date to the 19th or 20th Dynasty, based on its archaeological and prosopographical context in the Khokhah region. In this area are located the tombs of Ashakhet (TT 174), wab-priest to the front of Mut (wab n HAt n Mwt), and Khonsuemheb (KHT02, the tomb adjacent to TT 174), chief of the workhouses of Mut (Hrj n Sna n Mwt), both of whom—and their family members as well—held titles associated with the cult of Mut. These tombs have been dated to the end of the 19th or 20th Dynasty (Kondo et al. 2009: 53-66; Kondo et al. 2015: 26). Nakhtmin likewise bore a Mut-related title, and his funerary cone has been found in the immediate vicinity of TT 174 (see 'Findspots' section above). These combined factors—spatial proximity and titulary similarity—suggest that Nakhtmin may have belonged to the same administrative-religious circle and have been interred nearby during the same period.
  Gabry, by contrast, has proposed a date in the mid-18th Dynasty, especially from the reign of Thutmose III to that of Amenhotep III, based primarily on stylistic analysis of a statue attributed to Nakhtmin, because of the statue's stylistic features, inscriptional content related to the Book of the Twelve Caverns, and comparisons with similar mid-18th Dynasty pieces (Gabry 2024 [JEA 110]: 146-147).
  Further research and the discovery of additional material may help clarify the precise dating of Nakhtmin’s tomb.

• The one stored in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden is pyramidal (inv. no. F 1929/12.11. Personal communication between Kento Zenihiro and Louis-Philippe Bazelier. 14 Aug. 2023).

• For objects that may have belonged to the owner, see Dewachter 1979 [RdE 31].

• A statue in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (JE 27585 / CG 624) is for our Nakhtmin. According to the inscriptions he had a son who was sS Hwt-nTr [...], but unfortunately his name is lost (Borchardt 1925: 170-171; Daressy 1889 [Rec. Trav. 11]: 88-89).

• See also, 05-065 in his DALEX file 1 and 06-032, 041, 042, 058, 072, 076, 078, & 081 in his DALEX file 2.

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