406
Daressy #: 207
Owner: TT 47 Userhat
Reasons: Inscription and provenience
Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr jmj-rA jpAt-nswt wsr-HAt mAa-xrw jr.n sAb nH mAa-xrw ms.n sn-nw nbt pr mrt=f mjAy mAat-xrw
Translation: Revered one before Osiris, overseer of the king's apartment, Userhat justified, born of sab, Neh justified, born of Sennu, mistress of the house whom he loves, Miay justified.
Date: A. III
Length: --
Colours: Red (Galán 1998: 43). Red (HM: GLAHM D.1925.65). Red slip on the face and base (Goddard 2012: '1951.41').
Findspots:
Almost 90 found by Rhind (Rhind 1862: 138). He reportedly witnessed the placement of this cone at TT 47 (PM: 87) but see Manniche 1988a: 199 n. 8.
Unknown examples from TT 47 (Carter 1903b [ASAE 4]: 178).
One from inside TT 23, some from the court of it (Collins 1976 [JEA 62]: 34).
One from Deir el-Medina (01-240 in Davies's notebook).
Unknown examples from TT 181 (01-240 in Davies's notebook).
Unknown examples from TT 253 (01-240 in Davies's notebook).
One from the court of TT 32 (Gaál 1993: 120, Pl. 31).
One from TT 253 area (Strudwick and Strudwick 1996: 103–104, 155).
88, including some bricks, from TT 47 area (Kondo 2017, October 29). Among them, five were found in situ (Kondo et al. 2016: 116-118).
12 from TT 47. Among them, one was a brick found in situ, and another was a hollow (Kond et al. 2017: 46, 48-51, 53).
127 from TT 47 area from 2007 to 2020 (Kondo 2021: 123).
Remarks:
Most of the specimens take the form of pyramids or prisms, however, there is one conical example mentioned in Kondo et al. 2013: 114-115. A particularly interesting specimen is the hollow type; it appears that the internal walls were created utilizing a turning wheel, despite possessing a rectangular exterior face (Kond et al. 2017: Fig. 8-1). Additional hollow cones can be found at 134, # 138, # 139, # 215, and # 550.
The dimension of the cone's face is disproportionately larger than that of the seal impression. This indicates that the creator has crafted the face without first considering the dimension of the seal impression. Some funerary cones have faces that align with the shape and size of the impression to be stamped (cf. # 335, # 341, # 592, etc.), while others do not (cf. # 45, # 331, # 344, # 406, etc), and our cone is the latter.
Vivó suggests that the internal cavity found in of # 139, # 406, and # 550 was not deliberate and may have been formed accidentally (Vivó 2022: 16, note 7).
An example held in the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto features grid lines on its side (ROM: 993X2.82).
A prism-shaped specimen found during the TT 47 excavation bears two seal impressions on a different surface. This could have been utilized at a corner (Kondo et al. 2014: 49, Fig. 5-1).
See also 01-241 in Davies's notebook, 05-038, 058, 059, 093, & 128 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-028, 080, 101, & 110 in his DALEX file 2.