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Daressy #: --
Owner: TT 97 Amunemhat
Reasons: Inscription and provenience
Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr jrj-pat HAtj-a xtmw-bjtj smr watj jmj-rA Hmw-nTr nw Smaw mHw Hm-nTr tpj n jmn jmn-m-HAt
Translation: Revered one before Osiris, hereditary noble, mayor, seal-bearer of the king of Lower Egypt, sole companion, overseer of the prophets in Upper and Lower Egypt, first prophet of Amun Amunemhat.
Date: A. II (Vivó 2022: 382).
Length: 22.5 cm (BM: EA 62735). Size of EA 35627: 21 x 20 x 5.5cm (BM: EA 35627) or 8 x 7.5 x 2.5in.? (01-087 in Davies's notebook).
Colours: Red face and 1.0 digit of the stem with white overly (01-088 in Davies's notebook).
Findspots:
One from TT 82 (01-088 in Davies's notebook and 04-091 in Macadam's Green file).
Many from the court of Heqanefer that is said to be located to the north of TT 99 (01-088 in Davies's notebook and 04-091 in Macadam's Green file).
Several examples which are closely resemble to # 44 were from the shaft of TT 82 (Davies and Gardiner 1915: 2).
Two of # 42, # 43, and/or # 44 from TT 97 (Mond and Emery 1929 [AAA 16]: 53).
One from TT 87 (Guksch 1995: 120).
Two from TT 99 (Strudwick and Strudwick 2016: 53).
One brick from TT 84 and K-453- area (Loprieno-Gnirs 2021: 77; 159, n. 58).
Remarks:
This seal has a rectangular outline stamped on a circular face (cf. CAA 1991: # 3095; Davies MSS in the Griffith Institute).
The museum's database says that # BM 35627 preserved in the British Museum is a brick with this seal impression (cf. # 35627 in the database), but Davies and Macadam say it is # 43 (01-087 in Davies's notebook and 04-092 in Macadam's Green file).
The dimensions, design, findspots, textual content and inscription style of # 42 and # 43 suggest that the maker of the two is the same and that they were created at the same time. The rationale behind the use of two distinct cones is evident; it is to acknowledge both of Amunemhat's two titles, jmj-rA Hmw-nTr nw Smaw mHw and jrj-rdwj n nb tAwj.
See also 05-015 in his DALEX file 1, and 06-061, 066, 068, 082, 103, & 110 in his DALEX file 2.
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