286

Daressy #: --

Owner: TT 89 Amunmose

Reasons: Inscription and provenience

Transliteration: Asjr jmj-rA pr jmn-ms

Translation: Osiris, steward Amunmose.

Date: A. III (Hartwig 2004: 201)

Length: --

Colours: --

Findspots:

• Unknown examples from TT 89 (Mond 1905 [ASAE 6]: 94, 96; Davies and Davies 1940 [JEA 26]: 131).

Remarks: 

• As represented here, this seal has a rectangular outline stamped on a circular face (Davies MSS in the Griffith Institute).

• The ascribed owner is identical with that of # 285. Nina and Norman de G. Davies suggested that # 325 may also have belonged to the same official (Davies and Davies 1940 [JEA 26]: 131). Nevertheless, all excavated examples were discovered in the Asasif region. If all three were for the same individual, it is likely that he possessed two tombs.

• The dimensions, design, findspots, and textual content of # 285 and # 286 are similar. However, as the inscription style suggests, the maker of the two could have been different individuals. The rationale behind the necessity for two cones, despite the similarities in their contents, as well as the identity of the maker of the two cones and the order of making the two cones, remains unclear and requires further investigation.

• See also 01-176 in Davies's notebook, 05-019 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-049, 103, & 110 in his DALEX file 2.

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