92
Daressy #: 281
Owner: TT 279 Pabasa
Reasons: From its inscription and provenience.
Transliteration: jrj-pat HAtj-a Hm-nTr jmn-ra nswt nTrw jmj-rA Hmw-nTr n nTrw tA Smaw jmj-rA Smaw mj-qd=s jmj-rA pr wr dwAt-nTr pA-bA-sA mAa-xrw sA mry-nTr pA-dj-bAst mAa-xrw
Translation: Hereditary noble, mayor, a prophet of Amunre, the king of the gods, overseer of the prophets of all the gods of the land of the Upper Egypt, overseer of whole Upper Egypt, chief steward, divine adoratress, Pabasa justified, born of the one beloved of the god, Padibaset justified.
Date: 26th Dyn. Psamtik I.
Length: 9.7 digits (BM: EA 62686), 9.8 digits (MET: 30.6.42).
Colours: Thick cream paint (01-089 in Davies's notebook). A notable proportion of the cones for our Pabasa are painted white, often in a thick layer (cf. the 'Image Gallery' section of # 468 and # 469). The same style is evident in the cones owned by TT 36 Ibi (Pabasa's predecessor), # 450, # 451, # 610, and # 641/B.14, as well as those owned by TT 410 Mutirdis, who held # 48, # 387, # 603, and # 608. Pabasa, Ibi, and Mutirdis lived in the same period and it seems probable that the three individuals exerted an influence on each other with regard to the design of the cones (cf the 'Remarks' section below).
Findspots:
Unknown examples from around TT 386 at Asasif (Arnold and Settgast 1965 [MDAIK 20]: 61).
One from TT 196 (Graefe 2003: Text p. 203; Taf. 113, Kat. 506).
A card preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art states that an example of # 44 was unearthed from TT 297 (Strudwick 2003: 24), but the cone found there was, actually, not the cone (Daressy's # 282) but our # 92 (Daressy's # 281) (Vivó 2019: 32).
Three of # 92 and # 469 or # 470 were unearthed from TT 188 and TT 374 (one from the former and two from the latter. Redford 2006: 125, 151).
One from Asasif (Budka 2010: 740).
One (probably) from TT 297 (See 'Remarks' section of # 44).
Remarks:
The character behind the bA-bird (G29) in the third column is not Z1 but Q3 in Gardiner's sign list (Vivó 2022: 321).
The ascribed owner is identical to those of # 468, # 469, and # 470, but # 470 did not actually exist (cf. 'Remarks' section on # 470).
# 92, # 468, and # 469 appear to have been created simultaneously since all three possess distinct styles despite their nearly identical content. During the same period, additional officials possessing cones with various designs were TT 36 Ibi who had # 450, # 451, # 610, # 641/B.14, # 642/B.15, and # 643/B.16 and TT 410 Mutirdis who held # 48, # 387, # 603, and # 608.
According to Lichtheim, Pabasa is almost certainly the successor of TT 36 Ibi, who held cones # 450, # 451, # 610, # 641/B.14, # 642/B.15, and # 643/B.16 (Lichtheim 1948 [JNES (7(3))]: 165). Then, Padihorresnet, son of Ibi and owner of cones # 515 and # 609, is the successor of our Pabasa (Vittmann 1977 [SAK 5]: 254). The successor of Padihorresnet was the Ankhhor of TT 414, but he had no cones, probably because the superstructure of the tomb was never finished (Vivó 2022: 323). Next, Ankhhor's successor was Sheshonq from TT 27, who had # 444 and # 445. Sheshonq's father Horsaaset had # 436 and # 437. Sheshonq was probably a father-in-law of TT 197 Padineith, an owner of # 391 (Vittmann 1978: 134-138).
See also 01-089 in Davies's notebook, 04-089 in Macadam's Green file, 05-046, 047, & 053 in his DALEX file 1, and 06-049, 056, 061, 064, 065, 068, 085, 095, & 111 in his DALEX file 2.