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Daressy #: --
Owner: Pay (tomb undiscovered)
Reasons: --
Transliteration: Asjr sS-qdwt pAy sA=f sS-qdwt nb-ra mAa-xrw
Translation: Osiris, draughtsman Pay, his son, draughtsman Nebre justified.
Date: --
Length: --
Colours: --
Findspots: --
Remarks:
Chassinat bought one from a local farmer (Chassinat 1910 [BIFAO 7]: 161). As the material is not clay or pottery, but stone, it has been suggested that his cone is a matrix for stamping cones. Referring to another object of Pay and Nebre, Gauthier has concluded that Pay had enjoyed his life during the reign of Amunhotep I while his son, Nebre, had done so during the reign of Thutmose I. It is also noteworthy that Gauthier reconstructed their family tree which spans three generations (Gauthier 1916 [BIFAO 12]: 133). On the contrary, in Deir el-Medina there was a family of a draughtsman Pay who had fathered a draughtsman Nebre but they are estimated to have lived in the 19th Dynasty, which produced few cones (Habachi 1977: Tavola N. 22029).
The existence of this cone has been demonstrated (Vivó 2015: 583-584, 593).
See also 01-179 in Davies's notebook, 05-054 & 055 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-082 in his DALEX file 2.