228

Daressy #: 82

Owner: Kaemamun (tomb undiscovered, perhaps at Asasif or Dra Abul Naga)

Reasons: --

Transliteration: Hmt=f Smay(t) mry-ra Hm-nTr snnw n mn-xpr-ra kA-m-jmn

Translation: His wife, musician, Meryre, second prophet of Thutmose III, Kaemamun.

Date: A. II (de Buck 1957-1958 [JEOL 15]: 9).

Length: 6.9 digits (MqB: 71.1882.9.3), 10.4 digits (Medelhavsmuseet: MM 14152), 10.4 digits (National Museum of Denmark: AAf245), 10.8 digits (RMO: F 1955/6.1), 10.9 digits (MAN: 15143. Griñó 1971: 319), 11.2 digits (Museo Archeologico, Milano: E. 817. Lise 1979: 27), 10.1 x 5.4 x 3.6 digits (BM: EA 71401).

Colours: The rim and the inscription of the face are light blues (Munsell 5B 6/6), and the other parts of the face are red (10R 4/8) (von Droste zu Hülshoff and Schlick-Nolte 1984: # 2293). The inscription on the face of the cone housed in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Granada, Spain (Acc. no. 14153) is not painted in light blue (Pérez Die 2008: 54). Red (Basch et al. 1976: 241; Griñó 1971: 319). Red background (LM: 56.20.482). White over red face and 2.7 digits of the stem (01-098 in Davies's notebook).

Findspots:

• Unknown examples of fragments of this cone from the Ramesseum (01-098 in Davies's notebook).

Remarks: 

• Davies wrote that he may have seen a Kaemamun lintel in a house near TT 39 (01-098 in Davies's notebook).

• Two statues are known to belong to our Kaemamun and one of them, a statue group in the Louvre (inv. no. 10.443), shows his second son who was the Aakheperreseneb (de Buck 1957-1958 [JEOL 15]).

• As de Buck notes, it is interesting that the word 'Amen' in many of his objects survived Akhenaten's reign undamaged (de Buck 1957-1958 [JEOL 15]: 9-10).

• The ascribed owner is identical to those of # 246 and # 590.

• It is notable that while both # 246 and # 590 refer to the owner as the fourth prophet of Amun, # 228 refers to him as the second prophet of Amun. This discrepancy does not necessarily indicate that # 228 was created last, as # 590 states that Kaemamun's sun is already the second prophet of Amun, while Kaemamun himself is the fourth. The precise cause of this reversal of social status between father and son remains uncertain.

• Danilova reconstructed the genealogy of three individuals holding the title 'child of the kap': Usersatet, king's son of Kush, Qenamun (holder of cone # 187), and our Kaemamun. In her reconstruction, Kaemamun’s father is identified as the brother of Qenamun. However, this reconstruction remains hypothetical and involves substantial speculation. Further verification is required, particularly regarding chronological issues arising from the proposed coexistence of three generations during the reign of Amenhotep II (Danilova 2025).

• Those in the British Museum (BM: EA 71401) and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (JdE 56019) are bricks.

• Blue painted cones are rare. We have # 100, # 204, # 228, # 292, # 504, # 538, # 559, # 587, and # 650/B.23 as similar examples.

• See also 04-073 in Macadam's Green file, 05-072 & 135 in his DALEX file 1, and 06-066 & 085 in his DALEX file 2.

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