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Daressy #: 156
Owner: Djedher (tomb undiscovered. Perhaps at Asasif. Eigner suggests 'Grab II' in Asasif as Djedher's tomb. Eigner 1984: Abb. 83)
Reasons: --
Transliteration: Dd-Hr mAa-xrw sA n anx-Hr sA jrj-pat HAtj-a wr aA n mSwS HAtj-a jmj-rA Hmw-nTr n bA-nb-Dw Dd-Hr mwt=f nbt pr Sp-n-spdt mAa-xrw
Translation: Djedher justified, son of Ankhhor who is the son of hereditary noble, mayor, great, great one of Meshoshi, mayor, overseer of the prophets of Banebdju, Djedher, his mother, mistress of the house, Shepensepedet justified.
Date: 22nd Dynasty Takelot III - Rudamun (If this cone is of 'Grab II' in Asasif. Budka 2010: 97). B.C. 750-740? (=the end of the 22th Dyn. to the beginning of the 23th Dyn. Kitchen 1969-1970 [JARCE 8]: 62-63).
Length: 7.7 digits (Stadler and Zauzich 2001: Textband p. 224, Tafelband Taf. 72); 8.3 digits (A 1862. Kunsthistorisches Museum 1979: 113; Bosticco 1994 [Vicino Oriente 9]: 127); 8.5 digits (A 1863. Kunsthistorisches Museum 1979: 113); 8.5 digits (Stadler and Zauzich 2021: Textband p. 224, Tafelband Taf. 72).
Colours: White (Basch et al. 1976: 242).
Findspots:
One from near TT 302 (cf. No. 361 in the object register book entitled 'D. A. N. 1-1485' housed in the Penn Museum).
Two from 'Grab I' (at Asasif. Kunsthistorisches Museum 1979: 113. cf. Bietak 1972: Abb. 1).
Unknown examples from the Austrian concession in Asasif (Eigner 1984: 110).
Two from TT 27 (Bosticco 1994 [Vicino Oriente 9]: 127).
Nine from Asasif (Budka 2010: 318, 738).
Remarks:
Unknown examples were reportedly offered for sale alongside # 25 (01-010 in Davies's notebook, 03-096 in Macadam's Red file).
The body of the sealings is uncommon and resembles that of a bone. Another cone of the same type, # 391, is also known to be from a period later than the New Kingdom.
The inscriptions do not mention the owner's own title but those of their ancestors, leaving it unclear whether this displays the owner's significant reverence for their forebears or refers to the genuine social accomplishments of their family. Regardless, the owner merited interment in Thebes.
See also 01-197 in Davies's notebook, 05-035, 131, & 154 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-058, 061, 063, & 068 in his DALEX file 2.
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