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Daressy #: 176

Owner: TT 34 Montuemhat

Reasons: Inscription

Transliteration: jrj-pat HAtj-a xtmw-bjtj smr watj Hm-nTr 4 nw jmn HAtj-a n njwt mnT(w)-m-HAt mAa-xrw

Translation: Hereditary noble, mayor, seal-bearer of the king of Lower Egypt, sole companion, fourth prophet of Amun, mayor of the city Montuemhat justified.

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

Length: 11.2 digits (Louvre: E 13169 (CM 154, CF 113)), 12.3 digits (Louvre: E 856 (N 707 40, CF 114)), 12.3 digits (Pellegrini 1902: 45), 13.2 digits (Inv. no. F 1991/10.2 in Rijksmuseum van Oudheden). 

Colours: --

Findspots:

• One (MMA: 15.10.26) from the tomb 'MMA H 3' at Khokhah.

• One from TT 34 (Nasr 1997: 221-222).

• One from Medinet Habu (Teeter et al. 2003: 181).

Remarks:

• The ascribed owner is identical to that of  # 409, # 410, # 411, # 418, # 419, # 420, # 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 01-213 in Davies's notebook, 05-066 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-058, 061, 063, 084, 101, & 111 in his DALEX file 2.

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