87
Daressy #: 24
Owner: Nakhtmin (tomb undiscovered, perhaps at Khokhah)
Reasons: --
Transliteration: jmj-rA st-wrt sS-nswt nxt-mnw. Dd=f nn Dd=j grg nn jrj=j bw Dw
Translation: Overseer of the great storeroom, king's scribe, Nakhtmin, who says: 'I did not tell a lie, I did not do evil'.
Date: Hat. - T. III (Owner of this cone had his second tomb, TT 87. cf. Remarks below).
Length: --
Colours: Red face and stem (? 01-039 in Davies's notebook).
Findspots:
One from the robber’s deposit in shaft B of TT 254 (Strudwick and Strudwick 1996: 128, 155).
Two from TT 47 area (Kondo 2017, October 29).
Remarks:
The ascribed owner is identical to that of # 89, # 91, # 113, # 147, and # 177 from the inscription and provenience.
The widely accepted opinion about this cone is that it belongs to TT 87 of Nakhtmin (01-039 in Davies's notebook, 03-060 in Macadam's Red file, Stewart 1986: 56–57; Kampp 1996: 341; Kondo 1998: 38; Vivó 2002: 24). I do not share this view for the following reasons: both # 87 and # 89 were found in the same place which is far from TT 87; moreover, this cone has a different type of seal impression from that of # 147 and # 177, which we know with certainty to belong to TT 87. This implies that the maker of # 87, # 89, # 91, and # 113 was different from that of # 147 and # 177. Since the three cones were owned by TT 87, we can safely say that # 87, # 89, # 91, and # 113 belonged to another tomb. However, since the titles inscribed on # 87, # 89, # 91, and # 113 are the same as those of Nakhtmin from TT 87, it is logical that he had two tombs: TT 87 and the one at al-Khokhah which has not yet been identified. Therefore, with regard to the order of making the cones, # 87, # 89, # 91, and # 113 were made for Nakhtmin's first tomb at Khokhah. Subsequently, # 147 and # 177 were made for Nakhtmin's second tomb, TT 87. For more details on my idea, see Zenihiro 2017.
See also 05-065 in Macadam's DALEX file 1, and 06-078, 081, 102, & 109 in his DALEX file 2.