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Daressy #: --

Owner: 'Tomb 6' Abekh

Reasons: Provenience.

Transliteration: jmj-rA pr Abx (?)[...]

Translation: Steward, Abekh (?)[...].

Date: Iahmose I (Vivó 2022: 399).

Length: 28.6cm (MMA: 13.180.41), 29.8cm (MMA: 13.180.42).

Colours: --

Findspots:

• Four from Asasif (Hayes 1990: 35. They are 13.180.39, 13.180.40,13.180.41, and 13.180.42 from 'Tomb 2').

• Unknown examples from the tomb located in front of the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut (Chassinat 1910 [BIFAO 7]: 160).

• 205 from the foot of the causeway of Montuhotep. Among them, at least 77 examples were from 'Tomb 6' (east of Asasif. Polz 2007: 151).

Remarks: 

• The dimension of the cone's face is disproportionately larger than that of the seal impression. This indicates that the creator has crafted the face without first considering the dimension of the seal impression. Some funerary cones have faces that align with the shape and size of the impression to be stamped (cf. # 335, # 341, # 592, etc.), while others do not (cf. # 45, # 331, # 344, # 406, etc), and our cone is the latter.

• See also 01-191 in Davies's notebook, 05-005 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-049 in his DALEX file 2.

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