O. Ashmolean Museum 0178 | |
Other nos.: | O. Gardiner 0178 |
Description: | Limestone, 20 x 7.5 cms. Two sides; obverse: two columns of eighteen lines and the remains of ten lines; reverse: thirteen lines. Red ink. Damaged; broken at left and bottom edges. Top obverse = bottom reverse. Correction by the scribe in obv. 3 and rev. 13. |
Classification: | account : expense - portion (?) |
Keywords: | basketry - bread - cakes - gang - metalwork - vegetables - vessel - woodwork - TAy (?) |
Provenance: | No indication |
Publication: | Unpublished; Černý Notebook 45.81 (description, transcription) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | Dyn. 20, Ramesses IV ?; see Remarks |
Contents: | Account of commodities in connection with men; see Remarks |
Terminology: | n NN (rev. 2); hAw (obv. I 3, 8) |
Names/Titles: | Imn-wa (obv. I 16); Imn-nxt (idn.w (?); obv. I 11); Nb-nfr (obv. I 14); Nxw-m-Mw.t (aA n is.t ; obv. I 1); 2nsw (idn.w ; obv. I 6); Incomplete: Imn-[...] (obv. I 18); Mr-sw-~...# (rev. I 2); 1r-[...] (obv. II 6) |
Remarks: | Date attributed: the mention of the foreman Nxw-m-Mw.t would place this ostracon somewhere in or around the reign of Ramesses IV. Contents: According to Janssen, Village Varia , 56 n. 4, this text is to be classed with gift-giving. |