The Family of Pa-di-Amun-neb-nesut-tawy from Thebes (TT 414) revisited
provides fresh material about the identity of one of the key figures of
the family that reused the Saite tomb of Ankh-Hor (TT 414) in the Asasif
from the 4th century BCE onwards. It is the woman Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu, who
was previously listed in the genealogical register of TT 414 as
Pa-di-Amun-neb-nesut-tawy's daughter and wife of one of his sons, Hor.
By examining objects found by the agents of the consuls in the 19th
century CE and those found by the Austrian mission in the 1970s in TT
414 and in wider Theban contexts, the authors are able to identify
Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu, wife of Hor, as another, until now overlooked
individual, separate from his sister with the same name. The examination
of the funerary assemblage of Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu and of objects belonging
to her husband, daughter and sons reveals not only details of Late
Dynastic and Ptolemaic burial customs in Thebes but also additional
information on the priesthood of Khonsu and of the sacred baboons in
this era. This new identification of a previously overlooked person, the
mistress of the house and daughter of the first prophet of Amun,
Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu (G108 + G137), demonstrates that the finds from TT 414
are still far from being processed in their totality. This material has
the potential to provide answers to some of the open questions regarding
Late Dynastic/Ptolemaic Thebes and to contextualise funerary
assemblages.
