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Daressy #: 166
Owner: TT 90 Nebamun
Reasons: Inscription and provenience
Transliteration: Asjr TAy-sryt n mry-jmn jmj-rA xAswt jmntt wAst nb-jmn mAa-xrw xr nTr aA
Translation: Osiris, standard-bearer of (the boat) 'Meryamun', overseer of the desert lands to the west of Thebes, Nebamun, justified before the great god.
Date: T. IV – A. III
Length: --
Colours: White face (HM: GLAHM D.1925.53).
Findspots:
Unknown examples from the court of TT 81 (Mond 1905 [ASAE 6]: 93, 95).
Unknown examples from the Mond's excavation at Qurna and Khokhah (Mond 1905 [ASAE 6]: 94–96).
Some from the court of TT 90 (Davies 1923b: 21).
Two stored in TT 99 (01-206 in Davies's notebook).
A great number from TT 90 (01-206 in Davies's notebook).
One from TT 99 (Strudwick and Strudwick 2016: 53).
Remarks:
The boat 'Meryamun' also features in the inscriptions on cones # 22 (Date: T. IV - A. III) and # 591 (Date: T.III - A. II). As per the stela discovered by Mond at Qurna in 1924, Saaset, the owner of # 249, had a father called Hatmesha who served as a Standard-bearer of the boat 'Meryamun'. Gaballa hypothesized that Hatmesha might have served during the reign of Thutmose IV (Gaballa 1987 [ASAE 71]: 89-94).
The one preserved in the BIBEL+ORIENT Museum (inv. no. ÄFig 1974.1) is a brick type (Bickel 2004: 96-99).
See also 05-021 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-073, 092, 096, 098, 099, 103, & 110 in his DALEX file 2.