 The stamped face and profile of a funerary cone recently acquired by the Oriental Museum, Durham (1) are reproduced in figs 1-2. Though indistinct, sufficient traces survive to indicate impression is of a hitherto unattested type (2). Close scrutiny of this worn stamp, in a variety of light conditions, suggests that the owner was the sAw (`guardian`) (3) Amenemnebtawy(?) (imn-m-nb-tAwy) (4); his wife (snt.f), the lady of the house (nbt pr) [Ikhy?] (5), is mentioned in the second column. The copy in fig. 3 is offered with all due reserve, in view of the cone`s condition, but will perhaps stand until other and better preserved examples of the type are eventually brought to light.
Geoffrey T. Martin
Department of Egyptology
University College London
WC1E 6BT
C. Nicholas Reeves
Department of Egyptian Antiquities
The British Museum
WC1B 3DG
Notes
(1) Durham 1984.17. The cone is intact, with faint traces of red ochre on the face and fore-end of the butt. Its overall length is 17 cm, and the diameter of the face 8 cm; the stamp measures 2.8 cm in width x 5.8 cm in height. The writers are grateful to Prof. J. R. Harris and Mr J. Ruffle for permission to publish this piece.
(2) The following additions to the main corpus (Davies and Macadam, A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones, I (Oxford 1957)) may be noted: Mond & Myers, Temples of Armant (London 1940), 101, pl. 107, 9 (P 1449); James, JEA 45 (1959), 115 f.; Heyler, Kemi 15 (1959), 85 & pI. 13 (1); Hari, CdE 47 (1972), 76 ff.; Collins, JEA 62 (1976), 34 & fig. 7, 36 & fig. 38, 39 & fig. 59; Murnane, GM 19 (1976), 63 f.; Dewachter, RdE 32 (1980), 140 f.; and Chappaz, BSEG 5 (1981), 86. Cf. further Manniche, Lost Tombs: a study of certain Eighteenth Dynasty monuments in the Theban necropolis (forthcoming), chapter 1.
(3) Or, just possibly, m(i)niw, `herdsman`.
(4) Apparently so, though the name Amenemnebtawy is not otherwise known and use of the m of predication unexpected. For the name Amennebtawy (imn-nb-tAwy), cf. Ranke, PN, I, 29, 17.
(5) Cf. Ranke, op. cit., I, 55, 13.
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