The Deir el-Medina Database

O. Berlin P 10630

Other nos.: -

Description: Pottery sherd, 17 x 15.5 cm. Inscribed in black ink on two sides, obverse 8 lines, reverse 2 lines (numbered 9-10). Top obverse = bottom reverse. Damaged: chipped off causing a small loss at the end of obverse 5 and beginning of obverse 8.

Classification: letter

Keywords: document - nmH

Provenance: Bought on the West Bank of Luxor.

Publication: Deir el Medine online, URL: http://dem-online.gwi.uni-muenchen.de (description, transcription, transliteration, translation, photograph and commentary); Černý, Community of Workmen , 351-352 (translation, commentary); Hieratische Papyrus Berlin III, Leipzig 1911, pls. XXXIX, XXXIXa (description, facsimile, transcription); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions V, 565 (transcription); Wente, Letters , 166 no. 274 (translation)

Dates mentioned: -

Dates attributed: Dyn. 20 ( Hieratische Papyrus Berlin III); dyn. 20, Ramesses III (Kitchen, Wente).

Contents: A letter to the scribe Nfr-Htp from an anonymous author who asks for a document to be sent (see Remarks), and praises the recipient as one having a role similar to that of the father of the author.

Terminology: n NN m anx wDA snb m Hs.w.t (obv. 1); nfr snb=k m bAH Imn (rev. 10); r-a-sS (obv. 3); r nty (obv. 2); Hna Dd (obv. 2; written: Hna )

Names/Titles: an. ( it ; obv. 6); Imn (deity; rev. 10); Imn-Ra-nswt-nTr.w (deity; nTr=k Sps.y ; obv. 1-2) ; PtH (deity; obv. 5); Nfr-Htp ( sS ; obv. 1)

Remarks: Content(s): it appears that the same matter is discussed in O. Berlin P 10628. The two texts are written by the same hand. (cf. Deir el Medine online at Deir el Medine online )

Record last updated 2024-04-29

	O. Berlin P 10630
Other nos.:	-

Description:	Pottery sherd, 17 x 15.5 cm. Inscribed in black ink on two sides, obverse 8 lines, reverse 2 lines (numbered 9-10). Top obverse = bottom reverse. Damaged: chipped off causing a small loss at the end of obverse 5 and beginning of obverse 8.
Classification:	letter
Keywords:	document - nmH
Provenance:	Bought on the West Bank of Luxor.
Publication:	Deir el Medine online, URL: http://dem-online.gwi.uni-muenchen.de (description, transcription, transliteration, translation, photograph and commentary); Černý, Community of Workmen , 351-352 (translation, commentary); Hieratische Papyrus Berlin III, Leipzig 1911, pls. XXXIX, XXXIXa (description, facsimile, transcription); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions V, 565 (transcription); Wente, Letters , 166 no. 274 (translation)
Dates mentioned:	-
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 20 ( Hieratische Papyrus Berlin III); dyn. 20, Ramesses III (Kitchen, Wente).
Contents:	A letter to the scribe Nfr-Htp from an anonymous author who asks for a document to be sent (see Remarks), and praises the recipient as one having a role similar to that of the father of the author.
Terminology:	n NN m anx wDA snb m Hs.w.t (obv. 1); nfr snb=k m bAH Imn (rev. 10); r-a-sS (obv. 3); r nty (obv. 2); Hna Dd (obv. 2; written: Hna )
Names/Titles:	an. ( it ; obv. 6); Imn (deity; rev. 10); Imn-Ra-nswt-nTr.w (deity; nTr=k Sps.y ; obv. 1-2) ; PtH (deity; obv. 5); Nfr-Htp ( sS ; obv. 1)
Remarks:	Content(s): it appears that the same matter is discussed in O. Berlin P 10628. The two texts are written by the same hand. (cf. Deir el Medine online at Deir el Medine online )