O. Cairo CG 25716 | |
Other nos.: | O. Cairo JE 96170; O. Cairo SR 01320 |
Description: | Grey pottery, 11 x 17 cm. Black ink, obverse 6 lines, reverse illegible traces of 5 lines. Correction by scribe in obv. 4. Damaged; beginnings of all lines on obverse lost, only traces of obv. 6, surface of reverse burnt, unknown number of lines lost at bottom. |
Classification: | letter |
Keywords: | beer - bread(?) - cattle - house |
Provenance: | Valley of Kings, workmen's houses between KV 17 (Seti I) and KV 21; Davis/Ayrton excavations 1907-1908; mark: Davis 1907-8. House. theta . 5; see Reeves, Valley of the Kings , 307. |
Publication: | Černý, Ostraca Caire , 67, 87*, pl. XCI (not CXI) (description; transcription and photograph of obverse); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VI, 154 (transcription of obverse) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | Dyn. 19 or Dyn. 20 (Černý); Ramesses IV (Kitchen) |
Contents: | Obscure message concerning, inter alia, amounts of beer and bread(?), the addressee's house, and someone's wife. |
Terminology: | ir n (between obv. 3 and 4?); ky Dd n NN (obv. 2) |
Names/Titles: | PA-iH-kAmn (obv. 5); PA-gf (obv. 2); Pn-Mn-nfr (obv. 5); Imn-nxt (obv. 1); 6y (f.; obv. 4?) Incomplete: [...] nDm [...] (6) |
Remarks: | - |