O. Cairo CG 25106 reverse | |
Other nos.: | O. Cairo JE 28932; O. Cairo SR 01772 |
Description: | Limestone, 27 x 31 cm. Inscribed on two sides, obverse: drawing of a bird with a human head, reverse: a hieratic inscription, 4 lines probably in black ink, and a drawing of a leopard's head on the edge(?). Top obverse = bottom reverse. Damaged: ends of reverse 3-4 lost, ends of reverse 1-2 effaced. |
Classification: | note(?) - letter(?) ; see Remarks |
Keywords: | divine manifestation - house |
Provenance: | Valley of Kings, Tomb KV 9 (Ramesses VI), excavation in 1890. |
Publication: | Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VI, 369 (transcription); Daressy, Ostraca Caire , 20-21, pl. XIX (photographs, description); Borghouts, in: Gleanings, 24, 57 (translation of rev. 3-4, commentary); Helck, Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka, 448 (translation of reverse). |
Dates mentioned: | rnp.t-sp 5 II [...] (rev. 1) |
Dates attributed: | Dyn. 20, year 5 Ramesses VI (, Helck, Kitchen). |
Contents: | Reverse 1-2: a note(?), reverse 3-4: a request(?) or an exhortation: "Do not work your manifestation"; see Remarks. |
Terminology: | - |
Names/Titles: | an. (Pr-aA anx wDA snb ; king; rev. 2) |
Remarks: | Classification, Content(s): reverse 3-4 possibly to be interpreted as a kind of letter to the dead according to Borghouts in: Gleanings , 57, note 108. |