On the label the name of the Chantress of Amun is given as “Tanetpasoe”. However, this reading is problematic. After checking the hieroglyphs on the papyrus, the Dutch Egyptologist Huub Pragt kindly suggested an alternative interpretation.

In his view, the sign in question is not the loaf “ t ” but a flat “ m ”, followed further to the right by the triliteral sign ” aHa ” (the mast of a ship). This would point to the word ” maHa.t “ (cult chapel/shrine). A term that from the end of the New Kingdom onwards, and thus also in the 22nd Dynasty, is regularly written with a sun disk and a vertical stroke as determinative.

The word ” maHa.t ” is in fact derived from ” aHa.t “, an indication for a tomb.

On this basis he proposes that the name of the chantress probably began with ” maHa.t‑s… “, and that one or two further signs (now lost?) may have followed before ” mAa‑xrw “. A plausible, though explicitly hypothetical, restoration would be ” maHa.t‑smn(w).t “, Mahat‑semenut, with the meaning “She who lets the cult chapel endure”.

For documentation see:
Info on the RMO site and C. Leemans, 1840, Description raisonnée des monumens égyptiens du Musee d’Antiquites des Pays-Bas à Leide, pg. 249 (T.26)

Totenbuchprojekt Bonn, TM 134496