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The funerary cone DM 350 of Djehutimes is identified as well, and also designates him as ‘royal wb3’. As for his genealogy, no information is available to us. IIL.7, Montuiui Date: Thutmose III — Amenhotep II (based on the cartouche and the depictions in the tomb) Genealogy: 7d —— Hapu ? Montuiui Tomb: Theban Tomb 172 Remains: — tomb structure Ranking titles: jrj-p"t h3tj-" htmtj-bjtj smr-w.tj Functional titles: wb3 nswt wb Cw b3k n jp.t nswt Honorific titles: mnh n nb=f Hsjj n nTr nfr Similarly to Wah and Djehutimes, Montuiui can also be dated to the reigns of Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, however, with more certainty than his colleagues can. Based on his titles, as well as on his biographical inscription, he must have belonged to the most prominent circles of the administration and the royal court, bearing three ranking titles and with responsibility for all of the royal apartments. The only source regarding the life and career of Montuiui is the stele in his tomb, TT 172, on the mound of Khokha in the Theban necropolis. The tomb itself has not been published as a whole yet. It is a T-shaped structure with a statue niche at the end of the axial corridor.*” Its decoration scheme contains the typical scenes of the era: offering scenes, fishing and fowling on the long walls, a stele and a false-door on the end walls of the transverse hall, funeral procession and rites, hunting in the desert, vintage, workshops, agricultural activities and bringing produce in the axial corridor.?* However, two scenes are worth mentioning. In one of them the owner is receiving collars as gifts for “3 For the architectural description of the tomb, see Kampp, 1996, 459-461. “4 Wreszinski, 1923, pls. 353-355; Porter — Moss, 1960, 279-280.
