374
Daressy #: 169
Owner: C. 3 Amunhotep
Reasons: Inscriptions and provenience
Transliteration: Smayt n jmn (? cf. Bavay 2010 [BSFE 177-178]: 32, Fig. 10) RnnA. jdnw n jmj-rA xtmt (? cf. Op. cit.: 32) jmn-Htp
Translation: Musician of Amun (?) Renna. Deputy of overseer of the seal (?) Amunhotep.
Date: T. III (Vivó 2022: 393).
Length: 13.2 digits (RMO: AT 96e), c.a. 13.3 digits (PRM: 1884.140.963. Personal communication between Kento Zenihiro and the staff of the museum. 25 Feb. 2011.), 13.5 digits (HUJI: HUJI 3134. David 2018a: 33), 13.6 digits (BM: EA 9653), 13.6 digits (LM: 1973.1.339).
Colours: 2.5YR 6 /6 (Ure: E.23.29). Red-washed (HUJI: HUJI 3134. David 2018a: 34). Red painted several digits from the bottom (RMO: AT 96c).
Findspots:
One from TT 55 (01-209 in Davies's notebook).
One from Dra Abul Naga (Heyler 1959 [Kêmi 15]: 87 n. 2).
107 from TT 29 area (Bavay 2010 [BSFE 177-178]: 37).
Eight from TT 99 (Strudwick and Strudwick 2016: 53).
Remarks:
Helck suggested that this was a forgery (Helck 1959: 372). Nevertheless, in January 2009, the University of Brussels mission uncovered the previously lost tomb C.3 located directly south of TT 29. It was the tomb of Amenhotep, who served as the deputy of the overseer of seal-bearers. The inscriptions within the tomb reveal that Amenhotep's wife was Renna and that she was the daughter of the overseer of seal-bearers, Senneferi (the owner of TT 99. Bavay 2010 [BSFE 177-178]: Fig. 10).
See also 01-208 in Davies's notebook and 06-034 in Macadam's DALEX file 2.