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Daressy #: --
Owner: ?
Reasons: --
Transliteration: ...mAa-xrw. ...mAa-xrw
Translation: ...justified. ...justified.
Date: --
Length: 26.5 cm
Colours: Red.
Findspots: --
Remarks:
Determining the authenticity of this funerary cone is challenging due to its unusual feature: two persons kneeling back to back, with accompanying texts facing outward.
Each example is registered as 'EA 71402' at the British Museum and '996X2.4' at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
There are finger marks on the sloping upper surface. One possible explanation is that the object was set into the tomb façade, or possibly elsewhere in the tomb superstructure, below another architectural element arranged obliquely above it. The upper part of the brick may have been formed or trimmed into a sloping surface in order to leave clearance for that element. The finger marks may have roughened the surface, helping mud mortar or plaster to adhere.
This seal impression may have been stamped solely on the bricks, rather than the cones. Further information on this particular type can be found here.
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