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Daressy #: 43
Owner: TT 84 Iamunedjeh
Reasons: Inscription and provenience
Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr jmj-rA rwyt wHmw-nswt jAm-nDH nb jmAx
Translation: Revered one before Osiris, overseer of the law court, king's herald Iamunedjeh, possessor of honour.
Date: T. III (Wasmuth 2003: 148).
Length: --
Colours: --
Findspots:
Some (or many?) from the 'Mond's magazine (= inner hall of TT 96. See Mond 1904 [ASAE 5]: 100)' (01-059 in Davies's notebook, 03-026 in Macadam's Red file).
244 from TT 84 (Gnirs et al. 1997 [MDAIK 53]: 72).
Six from TT 99 (Strudwick and Strudwick 2016: 53).
16, including three corner bricks, were from TT 85 and from the area of AU6000 (Loprieno-Gnirs 2021: 158, n. 40).
331 from TT 84 and K-453- area. Loprieno-Gnirs also reports that the DAI has recovered 486 Iamunedjeh cones and 241 bricks from the TT 84 tomb complex, and that the LHTT project she directs has so far recovered 168 cones and 108 bricks from AU1000 and tomb -555- (Loprieno-Gnirs 2021: 74; 158, notes 41 and 42).
Remarks:
The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 281, # 283, and # 548.
Loprieno-Gnirs suggests that Iamunedjeh first had # 281, then # 34, # 283, and finally # 548. She thought so because # 281 refers to lamunedjeh only as 'wHmw-nswt', and in # 34, this title is preceded by 'jmj-rA rwyt', and in # 283, he is now 'wHmw-nswt tpj jmj-rA rwyt'. The titles on # 548, sS wdHw and jmj-rA Snwt t, appear to have been of a higher rank, suggesting that # 548 was likely the last to be made (Loprieno-Gnirs 2021: 75-76). This idea is convincing and this order explains well the hierarchy of titles in his time.
A large number of # 281 were collected from the forecourt of K-453-, while the most common in the courtyard of TT 84 were # 34. This fact led Loprieno-Gnirs to believe that K-453- was the first tomb of Iamunedjeh and TT 84 the second (Loprieno-Gnirs 2021: 75, although the relationship between K -453- and # 281 was first suggested by Elina Grothe in Gnirs el al. 1997 [MDAIK 53]: 74).
The most peculiar and intriguing fact is that the last cone owned by Iamunedjeh, # 548, has not been found at all around TT 84 or its vicinity. Despite the other three types of cones being discovered in large quantities, and although # 548 bears the most prestigious title, which one would expect the deceased to display prominently, not a single example of this cone has been found near TT 84, and only one instance has been discovered elsewhere (cf. 'Findspots' section of # 548).
See also 05-006 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-045, 046, 061, 102, & 109 in his DALEX file 2.