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Daressy #: 243

Owner: Nebmehyt (tomb undiscovered, perhaps at Qurna)

Reasons: --

Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr sS jmj-rA AHt nb-mHyt

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, scribe, overseer of the fields, Nebmehyt.

Date: --

Length: 10.1 digits (KMKG-MRAH: E.3985), 10.3 digits (HAN: 1935,200,361), 10.5 digits (Wessetzky 1979a: 19), 11.5 digits (Stewart 1986: 57), 10.6 digits (RMO: F 1929/12.10).

Colours: Traces of blue on the face clearly (01-271 in Davies's notebook).

Findspots:

• Unknown examples from TT 51 (Mond 1905 [ASAE 6]: 96).

• One from the outside of TT 55 (01-271 in Davies's notebook).

• One from TT 347 or 349 (Illegible. 01-271 in Davies's notebook).

• One from Ramesseum (Leblanc 2007 [Memnonia 18]: 41).

• Two from TT 29 (Tefnin & Bavay 2008 [ASAE 82]: 368).

Remarks: 

• A possible matrix for this cone, with a frog-shaped handle, is preserved in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (JE 28548 or 28558. Daressy 1893: 270, 295; Vivó 2022: 20-21).

• Blue painted cones are rare. We have so far # 100, # 204, # 228, # 292, # 504, # 538, # 559, # 587, and # 650/B.23 as similar examples.

• Nebmehyt is depicted on the wall of TT 51, but with a different title than the owner of this cone. Additionally, the cone's appearance differs from those from TT 51 (# 371, # 372, and # 484), suggesting that it does not belong to TT 51.

• See also 01-272 in Davies's notebook, 05-082 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-025, 026 & 081 in his DALEX file 2.

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