O. Cairo CG 25244
Other nos.: O. Cairo SR 12071
  
Description: Limestone, 23 x 23 cm. Inscribed on one side probably in black ink, 11 lines (numbered 0-10 by Kitchen). Damaged: only traces remain of line 0-1, beginning and middle of line 2 effaced, beginnings of lines 3-6 effaced, middle of line 10 effaced. Corrections by scribe in lines 6, 8, 9.
Classification: journal : delivery - labour - transfer
Keywords: firewood - inactivity
Provenance: Valley of Kings.
Publication: Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VII, 385 (transcription); Daressy, Ostraca Caire , 63, pl. LI (photograph, description).
Dates mentioned: sw 10+x (0, 1, 2); sw 23-30 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, ~10#)
Dates attributed: Dyn. 20, Ramesses X (Kitchen).
Contents: A journal of inactivity (see Remarks), and deliveries of firewood.
Terminology: n (neg.; ~6#, 7, 8, 9, 10); swD n NN (2); Ssp m Dr.t NN (2)
Names/Titles: PA-bAk (2; written PAy-bAk ; see Remarks); Imn-nxt (aA n is.t ; 2; see Remarks); KA-nxt (2; see Remarks)
Remarks: Content(s): for the sign n (Gardiner sign number N 35) (~6#, 7, 8, 9, 10) functioning as an indication of inactivity, see Janssen, Village Varia , 88, 93. Names, Titles: for the writing PAy-bAk (2), cf. PAy=f-bAk in P. Milan 1 (Demaree). The consecutive names Imn-nxt (2) and KA-nxt (2) are possibly to be read Imn-nxt sA KA-nxt (Demaree).

Record last updated 2006-01-20


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