392
Daressy #: 157
Owner: TT 389 Basa
Reasons: Inscription and provenience
Transliteration: jt-nTr Hm mAA sStA Axt smA gbtj (gbtjwj?) jmj-js Hskw rx-nswt bA-sA mAa-xrw sA jt-nTr Hm mAA sStA Axt smA gbtj (gbtjwj?) jmj-js Hskw sS-nswt mAa-mrj=f jmn-m-jnt mAa-xrw jrt n nbt pr nfrw-nt mAat-xrw
Translation: God's father, servant, one who sees the secret of the morning, stolist of Gebety (stolist of Koptos?), Imi-is, priest of Osiris, king's acquaintance, Basa justified, son of the god's father, servant, one who sees the secret of the morning, stolist of Gebety (stolist of Koptos?), Imi-is, priest of Osiris, true king's scribe, his beloved, Amunemonet justified, born of the mistress of the house Neferuneith justified.
Date: 26th Dyn. (Saite Period)
Length: --
Colours: The surface is generally black, which may be attributed to the baking process.
Findspots:
One from TT 386 by DAI in 1963 (JE 91531(c). Register book owned by the Egyptian Museum in Cairo).
Unknown examples from TT 192 (Habachi 1958 [ASAE 55]: 332).
Remarks:
The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 385, # 601, and # 602.
Basa's four types of cones can be classified into two groups (# 385 – # 392 and # 601 – # 602). As with TT 410 Mutirdis, Basa could have allocated each pair of cones to a specific pylon. However, the order of cone production remains uncertain.
The two surviving examples, one in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin ('nicht inv. 5') and the other in the Louvre (E 13189 (CM 174, CF 122)), exhibit a central break in their facial features. It seems unlikely that these breaks were made for the same reason as those on inv. no. 993X2.79 in ROM (# 332) and inv. no. 15.10.13 in MET (# 558), given that the breaks were made not by the cone's maker themselves, in contrast to the above two cones.
See also 01-203 in Davies's notebook, 05-014, 043, 090, & 157 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-029, 032, 061, 066, 072, 079, 082, 106, & 111 in his DALEX file 2.