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Daressy #: 201

Owner: TT 34 Montuemhat

Reasons: Inscription

Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr jrj-pat HAtj-a Hm-nTr 4 nw jmn mnTw-m-HAt mAa-xrw mwt=f mrt=f nbt pr Ast-xbHw mAat-xrw

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, hereditary noble, mayor, fourth prophet of Amun, Montuemhat justified, his mother whom he loves, mistress of the house, Asetkhebehu justified.

Date: 25th Dynasty Taharqa to 26th Dyn. Psamtik I.

Length: 21.5 cm (Galerie Günter Puhze 2006: 32, Nr. 188).

Colours: The clay is red-brown with dark charcoal core. The exterior is covered with bright red pigment (Teeter et al. 2003: 178). Red slip on a white foundation.

Findspots:

• One from TT 34 (Nasr 1997: 219-220).

• One from TT 196 (Graefe 2003: Text p. 203; Taf. 113, Kat.505).

• One from Medinet Habu (Teeter et al. 2003: 178).

Remarks: 

• The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 409, # 410, # 418, # 419, # 420, # 449, # 460, # 461, # 472, # 473, # 485, # 486, # 604, and # 656/B.29.

• Of the 15 known types of seal impressions, 11 (# 411, # 418, # 419, # 420, # 449, # 461, # 472, # 485, # 486, # 604, and # 656/B.29) are certain to be authentic and to have existed. The dimensions, design, textual content, and inscription style of # 411, # 418, # 419, # 420, # 449, # 461, # 472, # 485, and # 486 suggest that the maker of them is the same indivisual. However, it is unclear whether they were produced simultaneously or at different points in time. Montuemhat is known to have had three wives, each of whom is represented by a cone # 418, # 419, # 420, # 472, and # 485. If Montuemhat married the three wives simultaneously, it is possible that these cones were made at the same time. However, if he married the three wives sequentially, it is possible that each cone was created in the order of the marriages, or they might have been made simultaneously after he married the third wife.

• See also 01-236 in Davies's notebook, 05-005 & 066 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-061, 068, 088, 101, & 111 in his DALEX file 2.

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