618/A.07

Daressy #: --

Owner: TT 80 Djehutynefer

Reasons: Inscription.

Transliteration: sS-nswt jmj-rA pr-HD DHwtj-nfr Hmt=f nbt pr mry

Translation: King's scribe, overseer of the treasury, Djehutynefer, his wife, mistress of the house, Mery.

Date: A. II (Vivó 2022: 380).

Length: --

Colours: --

Findspots: --

Remarks: 

• An example can be found in the private collection (Chappaz 1981 [BSÉG 5]: 86). 

• The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 492 (Hari 1983a). Additionaly, he posesses TT 104 and its cone, # 176.

• Djehutynefer possessed three funerary cones in total, making this an intriguing case study as we can hypothesize about the reasons behind his ownership of these multiple cones. Initially, he had cone # 176 associated with his first tomb, TT 104. However, after a subsequent promotion, he constructed a second tomb, TT 80, and created a new cone, # 492, to accompany it. Djehutynefer was married to two wives over his lifetime: the first, Takhat, and the second, Meryt. This conclusion is supported by evidence of Takhat’s name appearing in both TT 104 and TT 80, while Meryt is mentioned only in TT 80, with her figure depicted as smaller than Takhat’s (Shedid 1988: 150, Taf. 52 b). Following his marriage to Meryt, Djehutynefer produced a third cone, # 618/A.07. Similar to Neferhotep, who possessed cones # 301, # 302, and # 359, 'marriage' may not have motivated the construction of a new tomb for Djehutynefer, but it did prompt the creation of an additional funerary cone.

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