601
Daressy #: --
Owner: TT 389 Basa
Reasons: Inscription
Transliteration: Asjr jt-nTr Hm mAA sStA Axt smA gbtj (gbtjwj?) jmj-js Hskw bA-sA mAa-xrw Asjr jt-nTr Hm mAA sStA Axt smA gbtj (gbtjwj?) [jmj-js] Hskw bA-sA mAa-xrw
Translation: Osiris, god's father, servant, one who sees the secret of the morning, stolist of Gebety (stolist of Koptos?), Imi-is, priest of Osiris, Basa justified. Osiris, god's father, servant, one who sees the secret of the morning, stolist of Gebety (stolist of Koptos?), Imi-is, priest of Osiris, Basa justified.
Date: 26th Dyn. (Saite Period)
Length: --
Colours: --
Findspots: --
Remarks:
The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 385, # 392, and # 602.
The sun boat depicted in this image is moving from left to right. Had it been designed to match the sun's course (i.e. from east to west), the entrance to the tomb would have been oriented towards the north. In reality, TT 389 faced east or east south-east (Bietak 1972: Plan 2), indicating that the ancient Egyptians did not aim to correspond the real world with the conceptual one.
See also 01-289 in Davies's notebook, 05-043 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-029, 032, 066, 072, 079, 106, & 111 in his DALEX file 2.