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)

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Remarks: 

• The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 385, # 392, and # 602.

• Basa's four types of cones can be classified into two groups (# 385 – # 392 and # 601 – # 602). As with TT 410 Mutirdis, Basa could have allocated each pair of cones to a specific pylon. However, the order of cone production remains uncertain.

• 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.

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