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Daressy #: --

Owner: -396- Huy (Amunhotep son of Hapu）

Reasons: Provenience

Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr sS-nswt Hwy n Hwt-Hrt-jb mAa-xrw

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, king's scribe, Huy of Athribis justified.

Date: A. III

Length: --

Colours: Thick white over the red face and the stem (01-079 in Davies's notebook).

Findspots:

• Together with # 10 and # 40, a total of over 200 examples from the tomb -396- (Reyad 2015: 150).

Remarks: 

• The ascribed owner is identical to those of  # 10, # 40, and # 622/A.11.

• 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 (modern Athribis) was the capital city of Km-wr, which is inscribed on # 40, the 10th nome in Lower Egypt.

• For a detailed review of the research history of the identification of tomb -396- as the tomb of Amenhotep son of Hapu, together with a reassessment based on funerary cones and other archaeological evidence, see Vivó 2025. 

• See also 04-107 in Macadam's Green file, 05-101 & 102 in his DALEX file 1, and 06-081, 100, & 110 in his DALEX file 2.

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