22
Daressy #: 4
Owner: TT 200 Didu
Reasons: Inscription (cf. Champollion 1844: 527) and provenience
Transliteration: wAaw n mry-jmn TAy-sryt n sAw n Hm=f jmj-rA xAst jmntt wAst Hrj-mDAw djdw mAa-xrw xr nTr aA nb tA Dsr
Translation: Captain of the (boat) 'Meryamun', standard-bearer of the regiment of his majesty, overseer of the desert lands to the west of Thebes, chief of the medjay, Didu, justified before the great god, lord of the sacred land.
Date: T. III - A. II (Champollion 1844: 528).
Length: --
Colours: White coated (01-005 in Davies's notebook).
Findspots:
Four from TT 200 (01-005 in Davies's notebook, 03-101 in Macadam's Red file).
One from TT 47 area (Kondo 2017, October 29).
Remarks:
The boat 'Meryamun' also appears in the inscriptions on cones # 398 (Date: T. IV - A. III) and # 591 (Date: T.III - A. II). According to the stela which was found by Mond at Qurna in 1924, Saaset, the owner of # 249, had a father named Hatmesha who was a Standard-bearer of the boat 'Meryamun' and Gaballa suggested that Hatmesha served during the reign of Thutmose IV (Gaballa 1987 [ASAE 71]: 89-94).
The dimensions, design, text content and handwriting of # 4, # 22, and # 24 suggest that the maker of all three is the same and that they were created at the same time. The reason for the need for three different cones remains unclear and requires further investigation.
See also 05-149 in his DALEX file 1, and 06-039, 040, 058, 073, 092, 096, 097, 098, 099, 104, & 110 in his DALEX file 2.