29
Daressy #: --
Owner: Amunemhat (tomb undiscovered, perhaps at Asasif or at Khokhah)
Reasons: --
Transliteration: sS-nswt wHmw-nswt TAy-xw n nswt jmj-rA st jmj-rA pr-HD jmj-rA aXnwtj jmn-m-HAt mAa-xrw xr nTr aA
Translation: King's scribe, king's herald, fan-bearer of the king, overseer of the storeroom, overseer of the treasury, chamberlain, Amunemhat, justified before the great god.
Date: --
Length: 11.4 digits (KhM: A 2122).
Colours: White over red and on 1 inch of stem (01-011 in Davies's notebook).
Findspots:
Two from TT 39 (Davies 1923a: 62. Davies states, however, that four examples were found in TT 39 in his unpublished notebook. See 01-011 in Davies's notebook and 03-094 in Macadam's Red file).
Several from the Khokhah valley (01-011 in Davies's notebook, 03-094 in Macadam's Red file).
Unknown examples from Asasif (Eigner 1984: 111).
Each one from the entrance of the hall of the tomb -350-, from the hall of the same tomb, from the shaft of the tomb -351-, and from 'Grab D' (Seyfried 1990: 181 - 183, 199, 269).
Two from Asasif (Budka 2010: 318, 735).
Remarks:
The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 77.
The reason for Amunemhat creating two different cones, # 29 and # 77, remains unclear. Nevertheless, while # 77 boasts solely two titles (TAy xw n nb tAwj and jmj-rA aXnwtj), # 29 showcases an additional four titles alongside the identical two. The signs on # 29 are of a smaller proportion to accommodate all six titles within a limited space. This could suggest that Amunemhat initially possessed # 77, but after being promoted and earning four more titles, he eventually created # 29.
The owner of TT 48, Amunemhat (called Surer), is one of the candidates for the owner of this cone since it was found near his tomb and he was also both a king’s scribe and a fan-bearer (Säve-Söderbergh 1957: Pl. 30-68). However, the inscriptions in his tomb never attested that he was a 'wHmw-nswt (king’s herald)', 'jmj-rA st (overseer of the storeroom)', 'jmj-rA pr-HD (overseer of the treasury)' or 'jmj-rA aXnwtj (chamberlain)'. If Amunemhat called Surer from TT 48 and our Amunemhat is the same individual, he also had # 477.
Museum August Kestner has a statue (inv. no. K. M. 1976.76) which seems to have belonged to our Amunemhat. The statue of Amunemhat bears the titles 'sS-nswt jmj-rA st TAy-xw Sms nb=f r nmtt=f Hr xAswt rsjt mHwt' and the name of Amunemhat's father, qn-jtm. Munro thinks that it dates from Thutmose III - Amunhotep II (Munro 1977 [GM 26]).
See also 05-016 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-040, 045, 046, 053, 078, 081, & 092 in his DALEX file 2.