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Daressy #: 48

Owner: Nakht

Reasons: -

Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr [sA]-nswt tpy n HAt jmn nxt mAa-xrw xr jmn snt=f nbt pr mwt-nfrt

Translation: Revered one before Osiris, first king's son before Amun, Nakht, justified before Amun, his wife, mistress of the house, Mutneferet.

Date: T. III or A. III (Radwan 1973 [MDAIK 29]). See 'Remarks' section below.

Length: --

Colours: Red face (01-061 in Davies's notebook).

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Remarks:

nswt tpy n HAt jmn was a shortened version of sA-nswt tpy n HAt jmn. See a stela of him housed in the EMC (Radwan 1973 [MDAIK 29]).
Nakht is known from a stela (Cairo JE 2021) and a lintel fragment (Berlin 7769). For details see Dewachter 1984 [Rd'É 35] 87-91.
Regarding the dating of the lintel fragment (Berlin 7769), Kees attributes it to the reign of Amenhotep III (Kees 1960 [ZÄS 85]: 46), a view that Dewachter also follows (Dewachter 1984 [Rd'É 35] 87). However, in 2007, a newly discovered tomb, believed to date to the reign of Thutmose III, was unearthed above TT 69 (Taher 2008: 13–14). The name of the deceaced was Nakht. Given that one (or some) of this cone has been found from TT 69, it is plausible that it may, in fact, belong to this newly identified tomb. If this is indeed the case, the dating of the cone—and by extension, the stela in Cairo and the lintel fragment in Berlin—would need to be reassigned to the period of Thutmose III. At present, it remains uncertain whether this cone is definitively associated with the new tomb.
See also 03-022 & 023 in Macadam's Red file, 05-061 & 094 in his DALEX file 1, and 06-092, 104, & 110 in his DALEX file 2.

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