234
Daressy #: --
Owner: TT 121 Iahmose
Reasons: Inscription and provenience
Transliteration: Xrd n kAp n mryt-jmn mAa-xrw jaH-ms [...]. Piccione reads 'IaH-ms pA Xrd n kAp n Mry.t-Imn mAa-xrw' (Piccione 2017: 266).
Translation: Child of the kap of Merytamun justified, Iahmose [...]. Piccione translates 'Ahmose, the child of the nursery of (Queen) Meritamun, justified' (Piccione 2017: 266).
Date: T. III (Vivó 2022: 383-384. His other two cones were made in the reign of Amunhotep II (see # 297 and # 300) but our cone seems to have been made by a different person considering its design. Therefore I put the cone in a different date in which Iahomse had still been active).
Length: --
Colours: --
Findspots:
Unknown examples from the wadi near TT 71 (01-119 in Davies's notebook and 04-032 in Macadam's Green file).
According to Piccione, two from near TT 121 (Piccione 2017: 261 and 266 n. 41. Note that he mistakenly states the cone has been unpublished).
Remarks:
Piccione asserts that Iahmose obtained the title Hm-nTr snnw n jmn-ra, which is inscribed on # 300 before acquiring the title Hm-nTr tpj n jmn m Hnkt-anx, inscribed on # 297 (Piccione 2017: 260-261, 267). If this is correct, both # 297 and # 300 were created at the same time during the reign of Amunhotep II, as the creator of both cones is evidently the same person. It is possible that cone # 234 was created during the lifetime of Iahmose, although he would already have been promoted to the Hm-nTr snnw n jmn-ra at the time of its construction, given the size of the tomb. This leads to the question of whether Iahmose had only one cone (# 234) whose inscription does not mention his main title during his lifetime. This is a matter that requires further investigation.
See also 05-007 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-088, 089, 090, & 110 in his DALEX file 2.