55
Daressy #: 54
Owner: Meryremetjef (tomb undiscovered, perhaps at Qurna)
Reasons: --
Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr Hrj Xnyt [n] (*) Hm-nTr tpj n jmn mry-rmT=f nbt pr mwt
Translation: Revered one before Osiris, captain of sailors of the first prophet of Amun, Meryremetjef, mistress of the house Mut.
Date: --
Length: --
Colours: White. Traces of red on the face (01-066 in Davies's notebook). Red (Brack and Brack 1980: 67).
Findspots:
35 from TT 90 (01-066 in Davies's notebook and 03-014 in Macadam's Red file).
Unknown examples from TT 99, 101, 103, and 'Mond's magazine (= inner hall of TT 96. See Mond 1904 [ASAE 5]: 100)' respectively (01-066 in Davies's notebook and 03-014 in Macadam's Red file).
Unknown examples from TT 101 (01-066 in Davies's notebook and 03-014 in Macadam's Red file).
Some examples from the court of TT 86 (Note that Mond, who conducted the excavation, misreported that he found the cones of Meryremetjuef and Heny. In other words, he regarded them as two different types. Mond 1905 [ASAE 6]: 92, 95).
One from the shaft of TT 78 (Brack and Brack 1980: 67–68).
One from the court of TT 81 (Dziobek 1992: 114).
One from TT 87 (Guksch 1995: 120).
One from TT 99 (Strudwick and Strudwick 2016: 53).
Remarks:
A human-headed scarab housed in Berlin's museum (# 10709. Roeder 1913: 519) is for this Meryremetjef.
The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 452.
While # 452 only mentions that Meryremetjef had three inconspicuous titles, # 55 mentions his proud title, which indicates that he was close to the HPA. Furthermore, # 55 contains more formal text than # 452, as it begins with 'jAxy xr Asjr'. Additionally, # 55 states that he had a wife. These circumstances lead me to suggest that he first had # 452 and then, after his promotion, he obtained # 55. According to the find spots data, the majority of the # 452 was discovered in the Khokhah area, whereas all examples of # 55 were found exclusively in the upper enclosure of the Qurna area. This may indicate that when he was bearing the titles which were given on the # 452, his tomb was cut at Khokhah. However, due to the unexpected promotion, he became a captain of sailors of the first prophet of Amun and decided to cut the new tomb at Qurna.
(*) This genitive n is not expressed in the Davies & Macadam’s catalogue, but can be seen on UC37560 in the Petrie Museum. See also Daressy 1893: 277 and Stewart 1986: 55. See also the images of Davies_cone_088_1recto & verso, and Davies_cone_088_4recto in the Image Gallery section below.
See also 05-060 & 071 in his DALEX file 1, and 06-066, & 075 in his DALEX file 2.