344
Daressy #: --
Owner: Khnumemhat (tomb undiscovered)
Reasons: --
Transliteration: sS Xnmw-m-HAt
Translation: Scribe, Khnumemhat.
Date: --
Length: 11.2 digits (The National Museum of Denmark: 7809).
Colours: --
Findspots: --
Remarks:
As shown here, this seal has a rectangular outline stamped on a circular face (Davies MSS in the Griffith Institute).
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 01-193 in Davies's notebook, 05-115 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-081 in his DALEX file 2.