Two Amenemhet Funerary Cones' Jaume VIVO During the study that we have carried out about the Egyptian funerary cones, in which we gathered all kinds of information about these objects kept in different museums and collections around the world, we have been able to find a cone kept in the British Mu- seum. It is an identical copy of the unattested one published by professor Robert Hari, of which the owner’s name was not known until now. In 1972 professor Robert Hari published an interesting article? about an unattested fanerary cone, which is said to have been acquired in the market place. Being in an ac- ceptable state of preservation, he was able to study its texts thoroughly except for a few sectors where the text is totally lost. This cone has a rectangular print with four text columns, all separated by vertical lines. As it can be seen in the facsimile drawing in his article, the part with the owner’s name has almost completely disappeared. ‘Two years after the publication of the Corpus of Davies and Macadam’, T. G. H. James made quite a critical review of the publication of N. de G. Davies edited by M. F. Laming Macadam, at JEA 45* in which he made some references to the transliteration of the texts of the cones in the indexes, and also lamented that the cones kept at the British Museum had not been compared in order to improve or complete the magnificent facsimile drawings made by Norman de Garis Davies. At the same time, James mentioned three unattested cones not included in the Corpus* ‘The cone that motivates this short article is the one mentioned by T. G. H. James, registered with the number BM 65.190, which he only mentions ‘bears a rectangular impression of which very little can be made out except the name of the owner | Lam grateful to Jean-Luc Chappaz for information related to R. Hari’s cone. for reading this article and for his useful suggestions. My thanks to The British Museum for its permission to publish the photography of the cone BM 65.190. 2°R. HARI, « Un cOne funéraire inédit », Cae 47 (1972), 76-81, figs. 1-2. 3N. de G. DAVIES & M. F. MACADAM, 4 Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones. Part 1, Plates, Oxford 1957. “7. G, H. JAMES, « Reviews », JEA 45 (1959), pp. 115-116, fig. 5 Two of them presented at the British Museum by Sir Robert Mond (nums. BM 65.189 and BM 65.190), which came from the excavations made at the Theban Necropolis and which it seems had not been published in any of the papers related to these excavations. The third cone was published by R. L. MOND and W. B. EMERY at AAA 14 (Liverpool 1927), p. 23.-fig. 15, although we believe very possibly that it may be cone num, 589 of the Corpus of N. de G. DAVIES & M. F. MACADAM, and that itis not, in fact, an unattested cone.82 Jaume VIVO. BSEG 21 (1997) \{ ® Aho, In spite of its bad state of conservation, the cone kept at the British Museum with the number BM 65.190 (figure 1) is an identical copy of the one published by professor Hari. By sheer coincidence, it keeps the name of its owner Amenemhet, thus completing the study carried out by Robert Hari. The complete text is as follows (figure 2): imBhy hr Wsir s3wty pr-hd (?) Tmn-m-h3t m3 hrw sntf nbt pr Mryt in s3.sn smh msn Nb-“nn-sw Beye ‘One revered by Osiris, guardian of the treasury (?) Amenembet, justified. His wife, mistress of the house Merit; by their son, to perpetuate their name, Nebanensu. Pepe With this copy we can not add anything new to the transcription carried out by Hari of the first text column which is the title of the owner of the cone. We believe that the interpretation and translation of the ideogram ff or Wi} has to be séwry, which appears as part of different titles on five cones of the Corpus’ of Davies and Macadam In regard to the second text column we see, through the reading done by T. G. H. James, the symbois q = that belong to the god Amen, are part of the name of the owner of the cone and therefore we exclude the genitive =~ of the beginning of the column which would not make any sense to read, although as professor Hari also observed, the following signs seem to start alittle lower than the other columns. Due to the bad state of preservation of the other texts in this unit we can not add anything new to the transcription and translation made by professor Hari nor add any more data regarding tie three persons mentioned in this cone: Amenemhet, Merit or Nebanensu. Ronda St. Antoni 22 pral. E-08001 Barcelona (Spain) E-mail: jvivo@abaforum.es ©T.G.H. JAMES, op. cil. p. 116. 7 Cones nums, 171 - 377 - 380 - 587 - 588.BSEG 21 (1997) TWO AMENEMHET FUNERARY CONES 83 Fig, 2: Amenemhet cone, rebuilt after the one published by Hari and the one kept at the British Museum.