397
Daressy #: --
Owner: A. 6 Djehutynefer (Seshu)
Reasons: Inscription and provenience
Transliteration: Asjr sS Hsb jHw Apdw n jmn DHwtj-nfr Dd.n=f sSw mAa-xrw jr.n sS msw mAa-xrw
Translation: Osiris, scribe of accounts of cattle and fowl of Amun, Djehutynefer, called Seshu justified, born of the scribe Mesu justified.
Date: T. III ?
Length: --
Colours: Red clay (HM: GLAHM D.1925/57).
Findspots:
42 from Dra Abul Naga (Gauthier 1908 [BIFAO 6]: 124–125).
Unknown examples from the southern Dra Abul Naga (Northampton etc. 1908: 4, Pls. 2, 23. Exact location unknown. cf. Delgado 2005 [BAEDE 15]: 92).
Unknown examples from TT 103 (Davies speculated that Copts had transferred here. Davies 1913a: 30–31).
Remarks:
The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 14.
The design of the two funerary cones, # 14 and # 397, including the spelling of them (compare the words 'Asjr' and 'sS') is distinct. Therefore, it can be concluded that the maker (and also the period?) of manufacture of the two cones were different. The order of production and the rationale behind the necessity for two cones, despite the similarities in their contents, remain unclear and require further investigation.
See also 01-204 & 205 in Davies's notebook, 05-074, 128, 151, & 152 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-026, 031, 032, 081, & 111 in his DALEX file 2.