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Daressy #: 2
Owner: TT 132 Ramose
Reasons: Inscription and provenience
Transliteration: sS-nswt xtmw-bjtj smr watj n mrwt jrtj nswt anxwj bjtj jmj-rA prwj-HD n nb tAwj thrq mAa-xrw ra-ms mAa-xrw jrt n nbt pr Ts-mHt-pr mAa-xrw
Translation: King's scribe, seal-bearer of the king of Lower Egypt, sole and beloved companion, eyes of the king of Upper Egypt, ears of the king of Lower Egypt, overseer of the double treasury of the lord of the Two Lands Taharqa justified, Ramose justified, born of the mistress of the house Thesmehetper justified.
Date: 25th Dynasty Taharqa.
Length: 6.7 digits (Louvre Mueum: E 5325 B (CF 23)); 6.8 digits (HAN: 1935,200,362), 7.7 digits (Liverpool Museum: 42.18.12); 7.7 digits (Louvre Mueum: E 5325 A (CF 73)); 7.7 digits (Stadler and Zauzich 2021: Textband pp. 221-222, Tafelband Taf. 70); 7.8 digits (Hunterian Museum: GLAHM D.1925.58); 8.0 digits (The Polish National Museum in Gdansk: MNG/E/11/EL. See First 2018: 3-5); 8.0 digits (Louvre Mueum: E 31876 (CF 141, EG 603)); 8.1 digits (Kunsthistorisches Museum: 5143. Personal communication between Kento Zenihiro and the staff of the museum), 8.8 digits (British Museum: EA 69222).
Colours: Integrally white coated. See Image Gallery section below. Davies states 'grey clay: face red (?)' (01-003 in his notebook).
Findspots:
12 from TT 132 (Lepsius 1849–1859 [LD Text III]: 284).
One example of this cone or # 631/B.04 from Dra Abul Naga (cf. No. 512 in the object register book entitled 'D. A. N. 1-1485' housed in the Penn Museum).
Many from TT 132 when roadworks were conducted nearby in 1976 (Eigner 1984: 43).
One from the court of Pit 1152 which is located on the third valley, south of Deir el-Bahari (cf. PM I-2: Maps V and X. Górecki 2011 [PAM 20]: 227 and 230). Górecki suggests that this example was later used as a stopper for the amphora, as it was found among the shattered remains of the amphora (Górecki 2014: 142-143).
Remarks:
The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 631/B.04.
Vivó posits that both cones, # 3 and # 631/B.04, are identical, with only the initial word on # 3 being unclear (Vivó 2022: 308). In contrast, I believe that the two stamps are clearly distinct from each other, and my suggestion is that the maker of the cone crafted # 3 first and then later created # 631/B.04, adding the initial word 'Osiris'.
Some of the funerary cones from the period subsequent to the New Kingdom appear to be shorter than those from the New Kingdom. For additional examples of shorter cones from the later period, see # 483, # 598, and # 609. However, it is challenging to identify any discernible trends in length (cf. Length & Width).
See also, 03-103 in Macadam's Red file, 05-098, 147, & 148 in his DALEX file 1, and 06-031, 038, 053, 079, 081, 082, 104, & 111 in his DALEX file 2.