492

Daressy #: --

Owner: TT 80 Djehutynefer

Reasons: Inscription and provenience

Transliteration: sS-nswt jmj-rA prwj-HD DHwtj-nfr mAa-xrw Hmt=f nbt pr tA-xat

Translation: King's scribe, overseer of the double treasury, Djehutynefer justified, his wife, mistress of the house, Takhat.

Date: A. II (Vivó 2022: 380).

Length: --

Colours: --

Findspots:

• Unknown examples probably from TT 87 (Mond 1905 [ASAE 6]: 93, 96; 01-217 in Davies's notebook).

• 35 from the shaft of TT 80 (Shedid 1988: 184–185, Taf. 66 d).

• Two from TT 87, and three from TT 79 (Guksch 1995: 120, 178).

Remarks: 

• The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 618/A.07 (Hari 1983a). He also has TT 104 and its cone, # 176.

• Djehutynefer possessed three funerary cones in total, making this an intriguing case study as we can hypothesize about the reasons behind his ownership of these multiple cones. Initially, he had cone # 176 associated with his first tomb, TT 104. However, after a subsequent promotion, he constructed a second tomb, TT 80, and created a new cone, # 492, to accompany it. Djehutynefer was married to two wives over his lifetime: the first, Takhat, and the second, Meryt. This conclusion is supported by evidence of Takhat’s name appearing in both TT 104 and TT 80, while Meryt is mentioned only in TT 80, with her figure depicted as smaller than Takhat’s (Shedid 1988: 150, Taf. 52 b). Following his marriage to Meryt, Djehutynefer produced a third cone, # 618/A.07. Similar to Neferhotep, who possessed cones # 301, # 302, and # 359, 'marriage' may not have motivated the construction of a new tomb for Djehutynefer, but it did prompt the creation of an additional funerary cone.

• See also 05-140, 151, & 152 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-053, 081, 091, 102, 103, & 110 in his DALEX file 2.

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