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Daressy #: 216
Owner: TT 164 Intef
Reasons: Inscription and provenience
Transliteration: sS mnfyt jn-jtj mAa-xrw xr Asjr
Translation: Army scribe, Intef, justified before Osiris.
Date: T. III (Wasmuth 2003: 146).
Length: --
Colours: Clay is a medium brown with a dark core, covered with bright red pigment (Teeter et al. 2003: 185).
Findspots:
One from the place a little away from the house of Khalil Ahmed in Dra Abul Naga (Carter 1903a [ASAE 4]: 48).
One (or two?) from the debris of TT 24 by Fisher (01-252 in Davies's notebook. Penn Museum to which Fisher belonged houses four examples today. According to the object cards, inventory no. 422/29-86-647 was from 'No. 5 shaft', 582(?)/29-86-648 was from 'court of tomb 159', 426/29-86-649 was from 'court of tomb 159', and 668/29-86-664 was from 'shaft in court N. 1J'. However, the object register book entitled 'D. A. N. 1-1485' housed in the same museum, however, only lists one example, no. 1314, near TT 159).
One from Medinet Habu (Teeter et al. 2003: 185).
Two from the 'Areal E' in Dra Abul Naga (Kruck 2012: 151).
Remarks:
The stele E 14053 at the Oriental Institute in Chicago belongs to our Intef. The object is significant because it provides Intef's two titles, sS nfrwt and sS mnfyt (mSaw. Assmann 1983: 228-229). The inscriptions from TT 164 do not indicate that the tenant was sS mnfyt, while our cone does not indicate that the owner was sS nfrwt. Therefore, although individuals who possessed one of the two titles in the 18th dynasty often held the other as well, the presence of the stele is necessary to confirm Intef's ownership of both titles and thus provide convincing evidence for the owner of TT 164. The stele is the sole object linking our cone and TT 164.
See also 05-026 in Macadam's DALEX file 1 and 06-058 in his DALEX file 2.