673/B.46
Daressy #: --
Owner: TT 68 Meryptah
Reasons: Inscription and provenience.
Transliteration: jmAxy xr ptH skr xtmw-bjtj Hm-nTr tpj n jmn mry-ptH
Translation: Revered one before Ptah-Sokar, seal-bearer of the king of Lower Egypt, first prophet of Amun, Meryptah.
Date: A. III
Length: --
Colours: --
Findspots:
One brick from near TT 69 (Lepsius 1849-1859 [LD Text III]: 287. cf. Seyfried 1991: 117).
Unknown examples of bricks of this, # 412, or # 674/B.47 from around TT 66 (Winlock and Crum 1926: 17).
Unknown examples of bricks (this cone or # 674/B.47) from the court of TT 103 (PM I, 2: 654).
Remarks:
The seal impression is stamped on a cuboid brick (Prisse d'Avennes 1847: Pl. XXIII).
The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 674/B.47.
It is not clear why he has two different types of seal impressions and the order in which they were made.
The question of whether our Meryptah is the same individual as the other Meryptah, who owns # 412, remains unresolved and is a matter of ongoing debate (Wegner 2022).
This seal impression may only been stamped on the bricks, not on the cones. For more on the same type, visit here.