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Daressy #: 75
Owner: TT 232 Minmontu (Senres)
Reasons: Provenience and situation (cf. Polz 2009: 339).
Transliteration: xtmw-bjtj Hm-nTr tpj n jmn mnw-mnTw Dd.n=f sn-rs mAa-xrw
Translation: Seal-bearer of the king of Lower Egypt, the first prophet of Amun Minmontu, called Senres, justified.
Date: Iahmose I (Vivó 2022: 386).
Length: 31.0 cm (Kruck 2012: 41), 33 cm (Pellegrini 1902: 44), 36.0 cm (Kruck 2012: 41), 36.9 cm (Kruck 2012: 80 but see page 41).
Colours: The face is white and red (Pellegrini 1902: 44). Red all over under white (01-095 in Davies's notebook).
Findspots:
Unknown examples from the southern Dra Abul Naga (Northampton etc. 1908: 4, Pls. 2, 24. Exact location unknown. cf. Delgado 2005 [BAEDE 15]: 92).
Two from TT 20 (Davies 1913a: 5).
One from below TT 143 (01-095 in Davies's notebook and 04-079 in Macadam's Green file).
One from the 'west gate' of Medinet Habu (Teeter et al. 2003: 176).
By 2009, 235 from and near TT 232. Of these, three were bricks (Polz 2009: 338-339).
Eight from TT 11–12 area (Galán and Borrego 2006 [Memnonia 17]: 206).
256 from the 'Areal H' in Dra Abul Naga (Kruck 2012: 80-81, 157).
Remarks:
Our Minmontu was a contemporary of Djehuty, the owner of # 535, 536, and 537. Djehuty was also the first prophet of Amun and was buried in a tomb nearby.
As Kruck states, this cone has a variant type (Kruck 2012: 81).
As Kruck states, there is an exceptionally rare type, namely the intermediate type between cone and brick (Kruck 2012: Taf. 10a, b). This object demonstrates that Minmontu was indeed intent on acquiring a conical cone, but for reasons that remain unclear (potentially due to physical constraints at the installation site), he was compelled to obtain a brick-shaped alternative.
See also 05-063 & 126 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-066, 082, & 101 in his DALEX file 2.