26
Daressy #: 77
Owner: Hor (tomb undiscovered, perhaps at Asasif)
Reasons: --
Transliteration: Hm-nTr n wsr-mAat-ra-mry-jmn-SSnq Hm-nTr n mnTw sS Sat n pr-aA Hr mAa-xrw Hm-nTr n wsr-mAat-ra-mry-jmn-SSnq Hm-nTr n jmn jrj-pat HAtj-a Hr mAa-xrw
Translation: Prophet of Sheshonq IV, prophet of Montu, secretary of the king, Hor justified, prophet of Sheshonq IV, prophet of Amun, hereditary noble, mayor, Hor justified.
Date: 22nd Dyn. Sheshonq IV (Cf. Kitchen 1986: 85-88).
Length: 29.9 cm (BM: EA 18207)
Colours: --
Findspots:
One example of this cone or # 25 from the Ramesseum (Leblanc 2001/2002 [Memnonia 12-13]: 57).
One example of this cone or # 25 from the Ramesseum (Leblanc 2006 [Memnonia 17]: 34).
One example of this cone or # 25 from the Ramesseum (Leblanc 2010 [Memnonia 21]: 37).
Remarks:
The owner ascribed is identical to that of # 25.
The dimensions, design, findspots, text content, and handwriting of # 25 and # 26 suggest that the maker of the two is the same and that they were created at the same time. One of the two may have been positioned on the left half of the façade, while the other, which exhibits a symmetry to the former, was set on the right half.
David Aston states as follows: 'This Hor was one of the most influential and important men of his day (Bierbrier 1979: 75; Redford 1986: 6-10). In addition to a varied string of titles, he appears to have built a shrine, 'The House of Isis of the Great-Mound-of-the-God of Thebes', now identified with Temple J at Karnak (Redford 1986: 12) during the reign of Osorkon II, and lived on to act as a mentor to Pedubast I (Redford 1986: 8-9. Significantly, in view of the dating espoused for Takeloth II in this paper, contemporary monuments of Hor are dated only to the reigns of Osorkon II, Pedubast I and Sheshonq Meryamun. None are known for the supposedly intervening twenty-five year reign of Takeloth II! That the High Priest Takeloth F is shown on one of the walls of Temple J indicates that it was built towards the end of Osorkon II's reign.). At least one of Hor's statues, Cairo CG 42226 (Legrain 1914: 62-64; Jansen-Winkeln 1985 I: 136-149; II: 506-514.) is dated by the cartouches of Pedubast. Thus if Hor died during the reign of Pedubast it would seem somewhat odd that he should have his funerary cones inscribed with the name of Sheshonq III and not Pedubast . These cones, therefore, probably indicate that Hor outlived Pedubast (Redford's doubts (Redford 1986: 15) on this score are based on a chronology incompatible with that outlined in this article. If the reign of Sheshonq III immediately followed that of Osorkon II, the 25 years of Takeloth II do not count and should not be taken into account when estimating Hor's age at different points in his career.). If this is true they either date from Sheshonq III's Year 31 at the earliest (Pedubast ruling for a minimum 23 years) or to a successor of Pedubast - Kitchen's Sheshonq IV. If Sheshonq III is meant, then the two datable instances of the unusual Meryamun epithet would be at least 25 years apart (Years 6-31), but if they both refer to Sheshonq IV, then they are a maximum of six years apart (Year 6 being his highest known regnal date).' (Aston 1989 [JEA 75]: 152)
See also 01-011 in Davies's notebook, 03-095 in Macadam's Red file, and 06-061, 064, 065, 081, 084, & 111 in his DALEX file 2.