Professional Documents
Culture Documents
To M. F. LAMING MACADAM
("i· November 16. 1997)
* We are grateful for the information and collaboration given. as well as tor giving us the permission tor
the publication of some of the funerary eones to Mrs. M. Dolinska. Gallery of Ancient Art. Muzeum
Narodowe, Warsawa; Mr. M. L. Bierbrier. Assistant Keeper of The British Museum, London: Mr. J.-L.
Chappaz, assistant conservateur of the Musées d'art et d'histoire d ~ Geneve: Mrs. A. P. Thomas, Senior
Keeper of Human History, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Bolton and Mr. Cl. Traunecker. Directeur de
l' lnstitut d'Égyptologie. Strasbourg.
1 N. de Garis DAVIES and M. F. Laming MACADAM. A Corpus of lnscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones.
Part 1, Plates. Oxford 1957.
2 G. T. MARTIN and C. N . REEVES. « An Unattested Funerary Cone », GM 95 ( 1987), 63-65 figs. 1-3.
3 J. VIVÓ POSADA and S. COSTA LLERDA. «Un nuevo cono funerario inédito en el Corpus de Davies &
Macadam», AutOr 12 ( 1994), 228-229.
60 Jaume VIVO and Salvador COSTA BSÉG 22 ( 1998)
Fig. 1: After Mond & Myers. Temples. pi. 197 (9) Fig. 2: After Davies & Macadam. Co1pus. 193
That both eones belong to the same person, called Nedjem, is confirmed also by the
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findings of H. Gauthier between February 18 and March 16, 1918, in the area of Qurnet
Murai, around the tomb of Amenemopet (TT 276) there he found thirty-four copies of
the cone number 193, together with fifty-two of type 232. Mond and Myers found, as
well, during their excavations at Armant, severa! eones of both types 8
The eones found by Mond and Myers are kept at the University College and have been
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studied by H. M. Stewart , who reads the name ofthe owner ofboth eones as Nedjem.
Differing from the opinion of Gauthier 10, and Macadam and W. Helck 11 , who see in
these eones two different persons called Nqm and '1-b1w we agree with Stewart, that it is
the same person called Nedjem, owner of the eones 193 and 232.
0 N. de G. DAVIES and M. F. L. MACADAM. Corpus: in the index as well as in the tilles. Macadam reads
11 1).
8 R. L. MOND and 0. H. MYERS. Temples of Arman/. London 1940. 116 (P.I446-1451. P. 1458).
pi. CYII (8 and 9).
9 H. M. STEWART. Mummy Cases and lnscribed Funerary Cones. Warminster 1986. 58-9 ( 100-1 0 1).
JO H. GAUTHIER. BIFA O 16. 184 (111): " ... la tombe de ce personnage (Nedjem) devait etre dans le
voisinage de celle d'Áa-biou, probablement plus au nord et a l'étage supérieur." .
11 W. HELCK. Materia/ien =ur Wirlschafisgeschichle des Neuen Reiches. Wiesbaden 1961-1970. 90. 98.
12 R. L. MOND and W. B. EMERY. « Excavations at Sheikh Abd el Gurneh 1925-26 ». AAALiv 14 ( 1927).
23 fig. 15.
13 T. G. H. JAMES.« Reviews ».JEA 45 ( 1959). 115-6.
14 G. T. MARTIN and C. N. REEVES. GM95 (1987). 64 n. 2.
15 N. de G. DAVIES and M. F. L. MACADAM, Corpus. as for example in the eones number 66. 67. 507.
62 Jaume VIYÓ and Salvador COSTA BSÉG 22 (1998)
Fig. 4: After Mond & Emery. AAA Liv 14. 23 (lig. 23) Fig. 5: Alicr Oavies & Macadam. Corpus. 589
Due to the resemblance of the two eones and for the aforementioned, we can suppose
as a work hypothesis that the cone of Mond and Emery and the cone of Macadam present
the same inscription. lt would be about a person called Nebneteru, 'accounting scribe of
the grain', owner at the same time of the cone number 582 of the Corpus of Davies and
Macadam .
16 L. COLLINS. « The private tombs at Thebes: Excavations by Sir Robcrt Mond. 1905 and 1906 ». J/:.".4
62 ( 1976 ). 36. tig. 38.
17 G. T. MARTIN and C. N. REEVES. GM95 (1987). 64 n. 2.
18 L. COLLINS. JEA 62 ( 1976). 36.
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and the Lady Su ...," and which she does not identify with any cone from the Corpus,
thus identified as unattested by Martin and Reeves20 .
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Fig. 7: 1\ticr Collins . .1/:·A 62. tig. 7 Fig. 8: After Davies & Macadam. Corpus. 406
lf we carefully look at the
inscription, which is incomplete, we
see a great similarity with the cone
number 406 of Davies and Macadam
(fig. 8), whose inscription is complete.
Taking into consideration the
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observation of Stewart , we think it
happens to be the same cone. The
mentioned piece comes from the tomb
TT 47 that belonged to Userhet, who
was the overseer of the royal harem
during Amenhotep Ill 's reign.
unidentifiable inscription".22 Up to this moment we have attested only two copies of this
cone, one kept at University College and the other one at Ashmolean Museum, which
most likely is the one reproduced, with some differences, in number 134 ofthe Corpus of
Davies and Macadam (fig. 11}, as Stewart23 suggests very well.
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Fig. 10: Aficr Collins. JEA 62. tig. 69 Fig. 11 : After Davies & Macadam. Corpus. 134
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f) In a recent article by Susan Redford,
about two excavation campaigns at the
tomb TT 188 of Parennefer. she announces
the finding of severa) funerary eones
emphasizing the presence of one she
claims belongs to the owner of the tomb.
This cone, in quite a bad state of
preservation. is considered by the author as
unattested, but observing carefully the
published photograph. one can observe
that it happens to be the cone number 469
of the Corpus of Davies and Macadam
(fig. 12), which belongs to Pabasa of the
XXVI dynasty. owner of the tomb TT 279
at Asasif and not to Parennefer of XVIII
dynasty as the author says.
Fig. 12: Atier Davies & Macadam. Corpus. 469
25 É. CHASSINAT, « Quelques cónes funéraires inédits >>. 8/FAO 7 ( 1910). 160 (XIV).
26 Amenhotep was the owner of the con e 276 of the Corpus of Davies and Macadam. and also probably
of the cone 166 as M. DEWACHTER suggests. «Les 'Premiers Fils Royaux d'Amon ' , compléments et
remarques ». RdÉ 35 ( 1984). 83-86.
66 Jaume YIVÓ and Salvador COSTA BSÉG 22 ( 1998)
(Str. 393)
Bibliography: A. HEYLER, «Note sur les cónes funéraires a propos du récent corpus
de Davies-Macadam », Kemi 15 ( 1959), 84-85, pi. XIII (fig. 1).
Translitera/ion: (2) jmJ[ly br ( 1) .Tnpw (3) Wsjr KJ ... ( 4) ...
Translation: ·'One revered before Anubis. The Os iris Ka ........
Fig. 15: By .1 . Vivó from sketch ofCI. Traunecker Fig. 16: Alicr Pomorska. Roc::Or 29. pi. 2 ( 12)
Translitera/ion:
Translation:
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Fig. 17: Alier Vivú. BSÉC 21. 83 (tig. 2)
,"\.ru,l.1.l).Q.5 C . - ::\
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T. G. H. James could only read thc namc of its owncr: ~ :!lt ~
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Bibliography: R. HARI, «Un Cóne funéraire inédit », CdÉ 47 (1972), 76-81, figs. 1-2.
Transliteration: (1) jm3!;zy !Jr Wsjr s3wty pr f:uj (?) (2) Jmn-m-/:131 mr !Jrw sntf nbt pr (3)
Mryt jn s3.sn srn!J ( 4) rn.sn NbJnn-sw
Translation: "One revered before Osiris, guardian of the treasury (?), Amenemhet,
justified. His wife, mistress of the house, Meryt. By their son, to
perpetuate their name, Nebanensu."
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Fig. 18: After Murnane. CM 19. 40 (fig. 1) Fig. 19: After Dewachter. RdÉ 32. 140a
28 This cone is identical to the one that appears in the Corpus of Davies and Macadam under number
416, although it presents all the signs written from left to right, contrary to the one in the Corpus. lt seems
that Macadam could not confirm the existence of the cone represented in the Corpus and he included it
directly the way it appears in the work of G. DARESSY, « Recueil de eones funéraires >>. MMAF 8. 1er fase., Le
Caire 1893, 291(200), 313. We have not been able either to verity its existence in any museum, so it is
possible that the cone that appears in the Corpus does not exist and so would have to be substituted by the
cone from Sevres.
68 Jaume VIYÓ and Salvador COSTA BSÉG 22 ( 1998)
Fig. 20: After Chappaz. BSÉG 5. 86 Fig. 21: After Mostafa. AS,1É 70. Taf. 2(b)
29 Djehutyneter was the owner of thc tombs TT 80 and TT 104. and the eones number 492 (see R. HARI.
Orienta/ia 5212 [1983], 232 and Sh. WHALE. Thefamily in the Eighteenth Dynasty ofEgypt [A.C.E. Studies
1]. Sydney 1989, 170-175) and number 176 of the Corpus of Davies and Macadam (see A. GHAFFAR SHEDID,
Stil der Grabmalereien in der Zeit Amenophis 'I/. Un tersuch an den thebanischen Grabern Nr. 104 und Nr.
80. Mainz 1988. 174-185, Taf. 66. d).
30 Th is cone was found in the pit 11 of the tomb TT 256 by the Egyptian Antiquities Organi sation in
1984.
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Fig. 22: Alter Martin & Reeves. GM 95 (tig. 3) Fig. 23: After Kondo. Orient 13. 70 (tig. 5 [3])
31 These three eones were found by the archaeological mission of the University of Waseda in the inner
court of the tombs TT 128 and TT 129 and show thc same inscription as number 433 of the Corpus of Davies
and Macadam, but with the signs written from right to left.
32 See the cone number 433 of the Corpus of Davi es and Macadam.
33 In addition to this cone Amenhotep has another three types included in the Corpus of Davies and
Macadam with numbers 1O. 40 and 65.
70 Jaume VIVÓ and Salvador COSTA BSÉG 22 ( 1998)
Fig. 24: After Van Siclen & Ryan. r A 7. 47 (FC 7) Fig. 25: After Van Siclen & Ryan. r .-1 7. 51 (FC 15)
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