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Owner: -396- Amunhotep (Huy)

Reasons: Provenience

Daressy #: --

Owner: Amunhotep (Huy)

Reasons: --

Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr jrj-pat jmn-Htp jr.n sAb Hpw n km-wr mAa-xrw

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, hereditary noble, Amunhotep, born of sab, Hapu of Kem-ur justified.

Date: A. III

Length: c.a. 20 cm (CAA 1991: # 5434), 20.6 cm (Galerie Günter Puhze 2005: lot no. 192), 21.0 cm (Chappaz 1981 [BSÉG 5]: 86)

Colours: The surface is reddish and the core is dark (Teeter et al. 2003: 174). Red face and 2.7 digits of the stem (01-079 in Davies's notebook).

Findspots:

• One from near the mortuary temple of the owner located on Medinet Habu (01-079 in Davies's notebook, 04-108 in Macadam's Green file).

• Unknown examples were bought with other Amunhotep-Huy's cones # 10 and # 65 (01-079 in Davies's notebook, 04-108 in Macadam's Green file but note that Macadam points out that this may not be from Deir el-Medina but actually from Medinet Habu).

• Three from Medinet Habu (One of them was stamped brick. Teeter et al. 2003: 174).

• Together with # 10 and # 65, a total of over 200 from the tomb -396- (Reyad 2015: 150).

Remarks: 

• Varille introduces a brick fragment with three stamps (Varille 1968: 104).

• The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 10, # 65, and # 622/A.11.

• It is relatively rare for one person to have four different types of cone. However, it is not clear why he has four different types of cones, or why he needs them. Moreover, each of the four types has only similar titles written on it, even though he had other high-ranking titles, and it is clear that the reason is not because "the area of the cone is small and I wanted to write down all the high-ranking titles that I have a lot of, which should appeal to others, but I couldn't, so I created four and wrote down different high-ranking titles for each of the four".

• Km-wr was the name of the 10th nome in Lower Egypt. The capital city was Hwt-Hrt-jb (modern Athribis), which is inscribed on # 65 and # 622/A.11.

• For a detailed review of the research history of the identification of tomb -396- as the tomb of Amenhotep son of Hapu, together with a reassessment based on funerary cones and other archaeological evidence, see Vivó 2025. 

• See also 05-021 & 103 in his DALEX file 1, and 06-061, 080, 100, & 110 in his DALEX file 2.

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