499

Daressy #: 242

Owner: Min (tomb unlocated, perhaps at Qurna)

Reasons: --

Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr jrj-pat HAtj-a jmj-rA xtmt mnw

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, hereditary noble, mayor, overseer of the seal, Min.

Length: 10.1 digits (Louvre: E 19986 (MG 2487, CF 146, MGL 2961)), 11.7 digits (BM: EA 9662), 12.8 digits (Medelhavsmuseet: MM 15456), 13.9 digits (Medelhavsmuseet: MM 15454).

Colours: --

Findspots:

Unknown examples from the court of TT 22 (Mond 1905 [ASAE 6]: 96).
Two (15.10.39 and 15.10.40 (brick type) in the MMA) from the court of TT 65-66.
One from the east of TT 103 (below TT 252) by the Metropolitan Museum of Art along with # 109 (01-271 in Davies's notebook. This may be 28.3.31 in the same museum).
Two bricks from TT 103 (Davies speculated that Copts had transferred here. Davies 1913a: 31. One of them also may be 28.3.31).
A brick mentioned in Borchardt, Königsberger, and Ricke 1934 was found by Borchardt at Thebes and now it is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (JE 63639. cf. Borchardt, Königsberger, and Ricke 1934 [ZÄS 70]: 28 Abb. 8 no. 1, 31; Register book owned by the museum).
One from the shaft of the court of TT 68 (Seyfried 1991: 93).

Remarks:

The producer was identical with that of # 503.
Borchardt etc. suggests this cone to be of TT 109 (Borchardt, Königsberger, and Ricke 1934 [ZÄS 70]: 31), which had # 109 and # 222.
The inv. no. E 19986 (MG 2487, CF 146, MGL 2961) in the Louvre has palimpsest seal impressions.
The matrix (seal) seems to have been damaged at the HAt sign in the second line. The unusual form of the sign probably resulted from damage to the matrix after it had been carved. This interpretation is supported by the fact that the damaged area extends further below the sign, as can be seen on EA 9662 in the British Museum, although this is not shown in Macadam's drawing of D. & M.
See also 05-063 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-061, 084, 103, & 109 in his DALEX file 2.

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