204
Daressy #: --
Owner: Amunemheb (his tomb is at Asasif?)
Reasons: --
Transliteration: wab jmj-wrt n jmn sA-ra Dsr-kA-ra dj anx jmn-m-Hb
Translation: Wab-priest of the west side of Amun and that of 'Son of Re' name Djeserkare, given life, Amunemheb.
Date: A. I
Length: 16.8 x 7.7 x 3.5cm (UC 37992. Stewart 1986: 27); 25.4cm (MMA: 13.180.51).
Colours: 'Inscribed in blue' (EMC: JE 58762. cf. Register book owned by the Egyptian Museum in Cairo). Very red face and 4.1-5.4 digits of the stem (01-106 in Davies's notebook). With slate-coloured signs, perhaps originally blue (01-106 in Davies's notebook and 04-057 in Macadam's Green file). Red slip at the circular base and inscription (Goddard 2012: '1951.40').
Findspots:
Three (MMA: 13.180.51, 13.180.52, and 13.180.53) from at or near Tombs 2 and 5 at the foot of the Hatshepsut causeway, Asasif.
One from Lansing's sall (or saff?) (01-106 in Davies's notebook and 04-057 in Macadam's Green file).
27 from the bottom of the Montuhotep causeway at Asasif (Winlock 1914 [BMMA 9]: 16-17; Polz 2007: 151. According to the register book of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, JE 58762 was found by the MMA at Deir el-Bahri in 1915-1916, but the site could be the same).
Remarks:
The body shape is almost cylindrical (01-106 in Davies's notebook and 04-057 in Macadam's Green file).
Earlier scholars have tentatively assigned this cone to A. 8 (Manniche 1988a: 11; Kampp 1996: 616; Kondo 1998: 40; Vivó 2002: 26) because the names match and Amunhotep I appears in a wall painting in the tomb (Manniche 1988a:48). However, # 532 and # 554 belonging to A. 8 have very different types of seal impressions compared to this cone and the titles of this cone are different from those found in A. 8. On the contrary, Polz suggested that Winlock's 'Tomb 3' was the source of this cone because 27 examples were found by Winlock around the tomb (Polz 2007: 151-152). The idea may be correct, but not solid enough. There are still other possibilities. In other words, Tombs 4, 7, and 8, which are all close to Tomb 3, are candidates for the owner of the cone.
The Petrie Museum holds a brick that was formerly in Černý's collection, but there is a possibility that it is a forgery (UC 37992. Stewart 1986: 27). As Davies also once had a brick whose authenticity he doubted (01-106 in Davies's notebook and 04-057 in Macadam's Green file), both bricks could be identical objects.
Blue painted cones are rare. We have so far # 100, # 204, # 228, # 292, # 504, # 538, # 559, # 587, and # 650/B.23 as similar examples.
Amunemheb was the Wab-priest who carried the boat during festivals. See Kees 1960 [ZAS 85] and Dewachter 1984 [RdE 35] for other officials with the same title.
See also 05-017 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-041, 042, & 109 in his DALEX file 2.