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Daressy #: --
Owner: TT 121 Iahmose
Reasons: Inscription and provenience
Transliteration: Hm-nTr tpj n jmn m Hnkt-anx jaH-ms
Translation: First prophet of Amun in the mortuary temple of Thutmose III, Iahmose.
Date: Amunhotep II (this cone (as well as # 300, since the designs of both are almost the same, indicating they share the same producer) was made posthumously. Piccione 2017: 260-261, 267, and 274-275).
Length: --
Colours: --
Findspots:
Four from TT 252 (Davies 1913b (PBSA 35): 283).
Four, four, and one example were from TT 103, TT 252, and TT 71 respectively (01-165 in Davies's notebook).
Two in the Metropolitan Museum of Art were from near TT 103 (15.10.8 and 28.3.28).
Remarks:
The wife was Xkrt-nswt Ra-y and the sons were Hm-nTr tpj n jmn n mn-xpr-ra m Hnkt-anx Re (owner of TT 72), Xrj-Hbt tpj n jmn Amunhotep, Hm-nTr tpj n jmn [...] XX, and Hm-nTr tpj n jmn Nebamun (Helck 1956 [Urk IV]: 1457-1459).
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.
sS Hwt nTr jt-nTr jmj-rA jHw HAtj-a Hm-nTr tpj n jmn Iahmose called twr, who was mentioned in Champollion's work (Champollion 1844: 78), could potentially be our Iahmose.
See also 05-007 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-031, 032, 066, 099, 103, & 109 in his DALEX file 2.