622/A.11
Reconstructed after the specimens held by the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Texas private person, and Bernhard I. Müller. © Bernhard I. Müller, Zurich.
Daressy #: --
Owner: -396- Huy (Amunhotep son of Hapu)
Reasons: Provenience
Transliteration: [jmAxy xr] Asjr jrj-pat sS-nswt Hwy n Hwt-Hrt[-jb] mAa[-xrw]
Translation: [Revered one before] Osiris, hereditary noble, king's scribe, Huy of Athribis justified.
Date: A. III
Length: --
Colours: --
Findspots:
A total of more than 200 examples of # 10, # 40 and # 65 from the tomb -396- (Reyad 2015: 150).
Remarks:
The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 10, # 40, or # 65.
Bidoli reported a local Qurnawi provided him with information that Amunhotep's cones (exact type unknown, possibly 10, # 40, or # 65) were discovered around -396- (Bidoli 1970 [MDAIK 26]: 12). However, no details regarding cone types, quantity, or exact locations were given, rendering his account somewhat unreliable until Reyad's publication mentioned above.
It is relatively rare for one person to have four different types of cone. However, it is not clear why he has four different types of cones, or why he needs them. Moreover, each of the four types has only similar titles written on it, even though he had other high-ranking titles, and it is clear that the reason is not because "the area of the cone is small and I wanted to write down all the high-ranking titles that I have a lot of, which should appeal to others, but I couldn't, so I created four and wrote down different high-ranking titles for each of the four".
Hwt-Hrt-jb (today's Athribis) was the capital city of Km-wr, which is inscribed on # 40, the 10th nome in Lower Egypt.
This type was initially published by Doetsch-Amberger (Doetsch-Amberger 1987: 18) and this is housed in the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Germany. Yet other examples of the same type are in the private collection in South Texas (Van Siclen and Ryan 1991 [VA (7 (1))]: 47), in Bernhard I. Müller's collection, Switzerland (Personal communication with him. 26th Jan. 2010. For more details about his cone, see here), and in Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (inv. no. F 2015/9.483. Personal communication with Louis-Philippe Bazelier. 14th Aug. 2023).