337

Daressy #: --

Owner: -61- Amunhotep

Reasons: Inscription and provenience.

Transliteration: Asjr Hrj swnw n jmn jmn-Htp

Translation: Osiris, chief physician of Amun, Amunhotep.

Date: 20th Dyn. (R. III? Schreiber 2015: 17)

Length: --

Colours: Covered in white wash (Schreiber 2015: 30). As for the cornice bricks, the stamped surface is white but the concave part bears a red slip applied pre-firing (Schreiber 2017: 100-101).

Findspots:

• Unknown examples from near TT 181 (? 01-192 in Davies's notebook). Roehrig suggests that this particular example is located in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (inv. no. TR 8.7.20.49. Roehrig 2020: 1379). TR 8.7.20.49 is # 4, and I believe it to be a typographical error for TR 8.7.20.48.

• Two bricks from TT 32 (Gaál 1993: 44-45, 69, and 116; Pls. X and XXX).

• Seven bricks from the tomb -61- (Among them, six were cornice bricks. Schreiber 2015: 27-30, Pls. VIII, and XI).

Remarks: 

• This seal impression may have been stamped solely on the bricks and not on the cones. For more about the same type, visit here.

• For the reconstructed depiction of the cornice bricks, see Schreiber 2017: 100-101 and Vivó 2022: 295.

• Schreiber suggests that certain # 337 bricks were designed for vertical installation, with their stamps intended to be visible, and were likely used for decoration near the the entrance of the tomb -61- (Schreiber 2017: 100-101).

• Helck reads: Hrj-mrt n jmn jmn-Htp (Helck 1959: 372) but Schreiber corrected the reading as above (Schreiber 2015: 28).

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