O. Cairo CG 25676 | |
Other nos.: | O. Cairo JE 43938 |
Description: | Yellow-reddish pottery, 16 x 9 cm. Inscribed on one side, black ink, 9 lines. Palimpsest (see Remarks)? Erasure and correction by scribe in line 9. Damaged; beginnings of lines 1-8 and ends of lines 1-9 lost. |
Classification: | letter |
Keywords: | gold(?) - message - silver - tomb (royal) - tools |
Provenance: | Deir el-Medina; clearing of temple by Baraize 1912; see Remarks. |
Publication: | Černý, Ostraca Caire , 57, 76*, pl. LXXIV (description, transcription, facsimile); Wente, Letters , 29, no. 18 (translation) |
Dates mentioned: | rnp.t-sp 2 II pr.t sw 13 (8) |
Dates attributed: | Dyn. 19 (Černý), year 2 Ramesses II (Wente) |
Contents: | Letter, apparently to the king, mentioning the cutting out of the first gate of the royal tomb, and a spike of silver and gold(?) of King Ramesses II. |
Terminology: | m anx wDA snb (3); r nty (5); hAb pw r rdi.t rx pAy=n nb nfr (~3-4#? see Remarks); ky swDA ib (4) |
Names/Titles: | an. (pA sS 2 n pA 2r ?; ~2-3#; see Remarks); an. (Pr-aA anx wDA snb ; king; 1); Imn-Ra-nswt-nTr.w (deity; ~5#); Pn-PA-Ra-1r-Ax.t.y (3 - proper name?); PtH rsy inb=f (deity; 6); nswt Wsr-mAa.t-Ra 4tp.n-Ra (king; ~9#); 2nsw (deity; ~6#) Unclear: nA nTr.w nA Hr.y nA [...] (deity; 6) |
Remarks: | Description: palimpsest? Černý, Ostraca Caire , 76* note b: "reste de l'ecriture anterieure". Provenance: publication has "Ramesseum" (sic), but everywhere else "Baraize 1912" refers to the clearing of the Deir el-Medina temple. Terminology: probably not much lost between r rdi.t ~ rx # (3) and [pAy]=n nb nfr (4)? Names, Titles: note vertical stroke after pA sS (2): restore pA sS ~2# [ n ] pA xr ? |