45
Daressy #: 60
Owner: Denreg (tomb undiscovered, perhaps at Qurnet Murai)
Reasons: --
Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr Hrj wab dnrg mAa-xrw
Translation: Revered one before Osiris, chief wab-priest, Denreg justified.
Date: --
Length: 10.9 digits (HAN: 1935,200,357), 11.1 digits (KhM: 1707. Two images are here. Personal communication between Kento Zenihiro and Dr Regina Hölzl. 10th Mar. 2008.), 11.8 digits (Monnet Saleh 1970: 46) or 14.4 digits (Uranić 2007: 102) (Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu: 206), 12.4 digits (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden: AT 96b), 12.5 digits (BCM: AYBCM: 2003-91.5), 12.8 digits (Pellegrini 1902: 152), 13.0 digits (Stewart 1986: 38), 14.1 digits (Ben-Dor Evian 2019: 26 and 28), 10.9 x 14.9 x 4.5 digits (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden: AT 95b), 9.5 x 7.5 digits (National Museums Scotland: A.1906.661. Personal communication with Kento Zenihiro and the staff of the museum. 24th, Mar. 2008); 10.1 x 8.8 x 4.5 digits (Pernigotti 1994: 17).
Colours: Red coated (NMS: A.1906.661). White coated (RMO: AT 96b). Both of them can be seen in the Image Gallery section below. Red face (BCM: AYBCM: 2003-91.5 and 6). Red slip (Goddard 2012: '1951.50'). Red background (LM: 1973.1.337). Red face and 4.1 digits of the stem (01-071 in Davies's notebook).
Findspots:
One from Qurnet Murai (01-071 in Davies's notebook and 03-007 in Macadam's Red file).
Five from the court of TT 276 (Fakhry 1937 [ASAE 37]: 35).
Remarks:
One brick is housed in the Civic Archaeological Museum of Bologna (Pernigotti 1994: 17 - 18) and in the National Museums Scotland (A.1906.661. See images in the Image Gallery section below). Two bricks are housed in the Rijksmuseum van Oodheden (AT 95a & AT 95b. See images in the Image Gallery section below). Another brick is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (15.2.68. See also an image in the Image Gallery section below).
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.
The son of the owner of C. 6 was also called Denreg, although he held titles such as 'jmj-rA Hm[w]-nTr HmnTr tpj jmj-rA pr n mnTw nb jwnj (overseer of the prophets, first prophet, steward of Montu, lord of Armant)' (Lepsius 1849–1859 [LD text III]: 264). Therefore, they might be two different personalities.
Macadam suggests that the owner's name means 'deaf' (03-007 and 008 in Macadam's Red file).
See also 05-149 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-041 & 042 in his DALEX file 2.