O. Berlin P 12630 | |
Other nos.: | - |
Description: | Limestone, 9.5 x 20.9 cm. Inscribed on two sides in black ink, obverse 6 lines, reverse 2 lines. Top obverse = bottom reverse. Damaged: end of obverse 1 lost, ends of obverse 2-4 slightly effaced, middle of reverse 2 effaced. |
Classification: | letter - memorandum |
Keywords: | cattle - coffin - payment - woodwork |
Provenance: | no indication |
Publication: | Deir el Medine online, URL: http://dem-online.gwi.uni-muenchen.de (description, transcription, transliteration, translation, photograph and commentary); Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 35 no. 14, pls. 10-11 (photographs, description, transcription, translation); Černý, Community of Workmen , 351 (translation); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions V, 594-595 (transcription); Sweeney, Correspondence and Dialogue , 163, 196, 208 (tranliteration and translation of obv. 2-3, transliteration and translation of obv. 2-rev. 2, commentary) ; Wente, Letters, 162 no. 256 (translation) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | Dyn. 20 (Deir el Medine online) , Ramesses III (Kitchen, Wente; see Remarks) |
Contents: | A letter or memorandum by a workman concerning non-payment. The wife of the debtor is made responsible for the debt. |
Terminology: | sxA.w n NN n NN [...] r nty (obv. 1-2) |
Names/Titles: | Imn-nxt (sS ; hAy of addressee; obv. 2); PA-aA-X.t (obv. 4); Incomplete: [...] (anx n niw.t ; f.; obv. 1); [...] (rmT-is.t ; obv. 1; possibly Ms ?; see Remarks); |
Remarks: | Remarks: Dates attributed: a period in the reign of Ramesses III or the reign of Ramesses IV is suggested by Wente, Letters , 162 no. 256. Names, Titles: the reconstruction Ms (?) suggested by Černý. Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , pl. 11. |