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Daressy #: 240

Owner: -171- Usy

Reasons: Provenience and the statue found in the tomb (Petrie 1909: 12, Pl. 32).

Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr sS Hsb jt n nb-tAwj wsy mAa-xrw

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, scribe of accounts of the grain of the lord of the Two Lands, Usy justified.

Date: T. III (Kruck 2012: 45).

Length: 26.4 cm (Stewart 1986: 78)

Colours: --

Findspots:

• One from TT 179 (01-270 in Davies's notebook. Roehrig states that the MMA mission led by Davies found one example, not restricted to inside TT 179 but, strictly speaking, on the southern slope of the Khokah hill, which includes TT 179, TT 181, and TT 182. Roehrig 2020: 1371-1373, 1377).

• Two from Dra Abul Naga (Gauthier 1908 [BIFAO 6]: 129).

• Three complete and several pieces from the tomb -171- area (Vanek 2011: 318).

• One from near TT 19 (Kruck 2012: 82, 157).

• Unknown examples from TT 47 area (Kondo 2021: 10).

Remarks: 

• The Petrie Museum houses four bricks (UC 37939, 37940, 37941, and 37942; Stewart 1986: 78).

• See also 05-037 in Macadam's DALEX file 1.

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