494

Daressy #: --

Owner: TT 127 Senemiah

Reasons: Inscription and provenience

Transliteration: sS Hsb t n Smaw mHw sn-m-jaH mAa-xrw xr nTr aA

Translation: Scribe of accounts of the bread of Upper and Lower Egypt, Senemiah, justified before the great god.

Date: Hat. - A. II (Auenmüller 2013: 942).

Length: --

Colours: 5 - 6 cm of front side is painted Red (Kondo and Ishibashi 2003: 131). The exterior is dark brown and the core is a charcoal-coloured (Teeter et al. 2003: 184).

Findspots:

• One from TT 87 (01-212 in Davies's notebook).

• Seven from the court of TT 128–129: one of them is a brick (Kondo and Ishibashi 2003: 131–132, 134, 178, Pl. 39).

• One brick and one cone from Medinet Habu (Teeter et al. 2003: 172, 184, Pl. 89c).

• Four bricks from Ramesseum (Jamen 2015 [Memnonia 26]: 67-68, Pl. X and XIII).

Remarks: 

• One brick is in the Petrie Museum (Stewart 1986: 70).

• The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 446, # 447, # 514, and # 556.

• The five cones can be grouped in two by design: # 446 - # 447 and # 494, - # 514, - # 556. It is likely that the ancient Egyptians did not have as many as five cones. It is possible that Senemiah had the two groups at different times. However, it is unclear which group he had first and which group second. The titles of the two groups are almost identical, suggesting that the reason for abandoning one group is not simply a matter of promotion. It is possible that Senemiah constructed his second tomb for unknown reasons, necessitating the use of a different set of cones. However, there is no clear distinction between the locations where the cones were discovered, making this hypothesis merely speculative.

• See also 05-124 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-109 in his DALEX file 2.

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