The black-varnished coffin of Qenamon and Ippolito Rosellini’s excavations in the Theban necropolis

A black-varnished coffin brought by Ippolito Rosellini to Florence (Museo Egizio, inv. no. 9477), found during the excavations made in the Theban necropolis by the Franco-Tuscan Expedition, bears the name of a God’s Father Qenamon. The presence of the title it-nTr, not followed by any divine name, in association with the name Qenamon, and the dating of the Florence coffin to Dynasty 18 suggested a possible connection with the owner of TT 93, Qenamon, Chief Steward of Perunefer and foster-brother of Amenhotep II (Betrò 2013a). This paper gives a detailed description of the case and its texts, and examines the proposed attribution in the light of Rosellini’s notes about the intact tombs the Expedition found in the Theban necropolis and the available data on Qenamun, his tomb and his known objects.