379

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Owner: Amunemhat (tomb undiscovered)

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Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr wr Hrj n jmn jmn-m-HAt Hmt=f mrt=f nbt pr nfrt-jry mAat-xrw xr nTr aA

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, chief great one of Amun, Amunemhat, his wife whom he loved, Neferetiry, justified before the great god.

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Remarks:

• The EMC has a lintel from Thebes (TR 29.6.4.6 or JE11951) attributed to a certain Amenemhat (Ahmed 2025). The museum also holds another Theban lintel, commissioned for Nedjem (owner of # 467), which is probably dated to the beginning of the 18th Dynasty (Ahmed 2025: 107). Its design is almost identical to that of TR 29.6.4.6. There's a possibility that TR 29.6.4.6 belonged to our this Amenemhat. If this is the case, the near-identical designs of both lintels could indicate a relationship between Nedjem and Amenemhat, or suggest they were produced in the same workshop.

• As for dating the lintels, Ahmed dates it from the beginning of the 18th Dynasty to the reing of Thutmose IV based on the expression of 'his wife', i.e. 'Hmt=f' and 'snt=f' (Ahmed 2025). However, we have to critically examine his idea. This is because Amenemhat's cone (# 379) refers to his wife as 'Hmt=f mrt=f nbt pr nfrt−jry'. This indicates that the same woman is referred to as 'snt=f' on a stela while being called 'Hmt=f' on a cone. Therefore, the terms 'Hmt' and 'snt' do not possess the power to clearly distinguish the date. At the very least, however, it can be safely concluded that the lintels, and consequently the cones, can be dated to the pre-Amarna period due to the absence of the word 'Amun,' which would have been subject to damnatio memoriae.

• See also 01-196 in Davies's notebook, 05-017 & 091 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-080 in his DALEX file 2.

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