501
Daressy #: 246
Owner: TT 275 Sebekmose
Reasons: Inscription and provenience
Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr Hrj wab sbk-ms mAa-xrw
Translation: Revered one before Osiris, chief wab-priest, Sebekmose justified.
Date: A. III (Wasmuth 2003: 147).
Length: 22 cm (From the Ex Private collection of the late Dr Ulrich Müller, Switzerland. Sold at the LiveAuctioneers on Oct. 2013, Lot 19A. [retrieved on July 31st, 2017]).
Colours: Wholly red, especially 2 - 3cm of the front side is more vivid (Gauthier 1919 [BIFAO 16]: 174).
Findspots:
About 300 from TT 275, though all of them are not in situ (Gauthier 1919 [BIFAO 16]: 174–175).
Two from Armant (Drower and Myers 1940: Texts p. 101, Plates Pl. 107 no. 10).
Remarks:
The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 651/B.24.
The textual content of # 501 and # 651/B.24 is identical; however, the handwriting differs between the two, indicating that they were created by different individuals. The former was stamped on cones, whereas the latter appears to have been stamped exclusively on bricks. This suggests a possible division of labor, with one individual responsible for creating seals for cones and another for bricks. Nevertheless, the sequence in which these objects were created remains unknown.
This cone is long and relatively slender (Gauthier 1919 [BIFAO 16]: 174).
See also 01-273 in Davies's notebook and 06-041 & 042 in Macadam's DALEX file 2.