493
Daressy #: 185
Owner: TT 79 Menkheperreseneb
Reasons: From the inscription, provenience, and the number of examples that were discovered. The cones have found from TT 86 of Menkheperreseneb, the tomb of the official whose name is the same as that of TT 79, but it seems to have rolled into there from TT 79 which is located at a slightly higher place.
Transliteration: sS-nswt jmj-rA Snwtj n Smaw mHw mn-xpr-ra-snb mAa-xrw xr nTr aA
Translation: King's scribe, overseer of the double granary of Upper and Lower Egypt, Menkheperreseneb, justified before the great god.
Date: T. III – A. II
Length: 10.6-15.4 digits (Guksch 1995: 125), 12.0 digits (Étienne et al. 2009: 234), 12.0 digits (Louvre: N 707 18 (CF 19)), 12.3 digits (MM: 10788. Personal communication between Kento Zenihiro and Dr Karen Exell, Curator at the Manchester Museum. 22nd Feb. 2008.), 12.9 digits (From the South German Ex private collection. Sold at the LiveAuctioneers on Mar. 2014, Lot 18. [retrieved on July 31st, 2017]), 12.9 digits (Stewart 1986: 51).
Colours: Red-brown slip (10 YR 9/1) on white foundation (5 YR 6/6. Shedid 1988: 188). The face is red (MM: 10788).
Findspots:
Unknown examples from the court of TT 86 (Mond 1905 [ASAE 6]: 93, 95).
Two from the tomb of Heqanefer (? 01-215 in Davies's notebook).
One from TT 55 (01-215 in Davies's notebook).
One from Dra Abul Naga (Heyler 1959 [Kêmi 15]: 87 n. 2).
Three from TT 80 (Shedid 1988: 188).
Four from TT 87, and 125 from TT 79 (Guksch 1995: 120, 125).
One from TT 29 (Tefnin & Bavay 2008 [ASAE 82]: 368).
One from the temple of Amunhotep II (Sesana 2009 [ASAE 83]: 395 and 403).
One from TT 99 (Strudwick and Strudwick 2016: 53).
Remarks:
The cone housed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA: 72.1771) suggests that some signs require correction in terms of their layout and size.
The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 90. There is a possibility that # 388 also belonged to TT 79.
One of the two titles on # 90 and # 493, their handwriting and their design are different from each other, so the maker and therefore the period of manufacture of the two funerary cones are different. The order of production and the reason for the need for two different cones remains unclear and requires further investigation.
See also 05-062 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-081, 087, 102, 103, & 110 in his DALEX file 2.