6

Daressy #: 7

Owner: Pyia (tomb undiscovered, perhaps at Khokhah)

Reasons: --

Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr jmj-rA ssmwt jmj-rA jHw n jmn pyjA mAa-xrw jn sA=f jmj-rA jHw n jmn s-wAst mAa-xrw

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, overseer of horses, overseer of the cattle of Amun, Pyia justified. (Made) By his son, overseer of the cattle of Amun, Eswaset justified.

Date: No red, faintly white film (01-018 in Davies's notebook).

Length: --

Colours: --

Findspots: 

• One each from TT 23 and 106 respectively (03-085 in Macadam's Red file). 

• Two from the court of TT 23 (Collins 1976 [JEA 62]: 34).

• One from the court of TT 105 – 107 (It may not be # 6. Ibid.: 35).

• One from TT 297 (Strudwick 2003: 22).

Remarks: 

• Davies had seen two bricks with this seal impression (03-085 in Macadam's Red file).

• Some archaeologists and Egyptologists have discussed the possibility of a relationship between this cone and TT 344 (Stewart 1987: 67; Kondo 1998: 40; Vivó 2002: 26). Admittedly, their names and titles are identical, but I believe that it would be wrong to infer a relationship from this. TT 344 is located on Dra Abul Naga, but all the examples ever found were from the western part of the Lower Enclosure at Khokhah. Furthermore, of the two images of Pyia's sons that appear on the wall of TT 344, neither is named Eswaset (Gauthier 1908 [BIFAO 6]: 155).

• See also 03-085 & 086 in Macadam's Red file, 05-055, 114, & 115 in his DALEX file 1, and 06-080 in his DALEX file 2.

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