Butehamun: a palaeographer or a person of interest? Some remarks on Turin coffin 2236, reburials, caches and the sign of the lunar crescent

On three 21st dynasty coffins, an unusual writing of the name Ahhotep appears on the scene of the dead worshipping the triad of Amenhotep I and queens Ahhotep and Ahmose-Nefertari. The sign iaH in the name Ahhotep is indeed written with the sign of the upward-pointing crescent, used in the 17th and the very early 18th Dynasty, but never found yet between such period and the 26th Dynasty, when it came back into fashion. The reasons that may have led to adopt such a rare and archaic writing are investigated in this paper through the evidence left by the owner of one of those coffins, Butehamun, Scribe of the Necropolis, and his role in the reburial of royal families in the early 21st Dynasty.