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Daressy #: --

Owner: Nedjem (tomb undiscovered)

Reasons: --

Transliteration: Asjr nby jmn nDm mAa-xrw xr nTr aA

Translation: Osiris, goldsmith of Amun, Nedjem, justified before the great god.

Date:  --

Length: --

Colours: --

Findspots:

• Unknown examples probably from the north of TT 55 (01-232 in Davies's notebook).

Remarks:

• There are his shabti (Roeder 1924: 283) and two miniature pottery objects (Roeder 1924: 296). Additionally, a lintel was discovered at Abydos (Mariette 1880: 453). 

• EMC has another lintel from Thebes, which is probably dated to the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty (JE 2019. Ahmed 2025: 107). The EMC also holds another lintel from Thebes (TR 29.6.4.6 or JE11951), whose design is almost identical to JE 2019 (Ahmed 2025). There is a possibility that TR 29.6.4.6 belonged to Amenemhat, owner of # 379. If this is the case, the near-identical designs of both lintels could indicate a relationship between Nedjem and Amenemhat, or that they were produced in the same workshop.

• As for dating the lintels, Ahmed dates it from the beginning of the 18th Dynasty to the reing of Thutmose IV based on the expression of 'his wife', i.e. 'Hmt=f' and 'snt=f' (Ahmed 2025). However, we have to critically examine his idea. This is because Amenemhat's cone (# 379) refers to his wife as 'Hmt=f mrt=f nbt pr nfrt−jry'. This indicates that the same woman is referred to as 'snt=f' on a stela while being called 'Hmt=f' on a cone. Therefore, the terms 'Hmt' and 'snt' do not possess the power to clearly distinguish the date. At the very least, however, it can be safely concluded that the lintels, and consequently the cones, can be dated to the pre-Amarna period due to the absence of the word 'Amun,' which would have been subject to damnatio memoriae.

• See also 05-096 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-060 in his DALEX file 2.

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