O. Cairo CG 25759
Other nos.:	O. Cairo JE 96200; O. Cairo SR 01361
Description:	Yellow-grey pottery, 9 x 8.5 cm. Obverse black ink, 5 lines; reverse red ink, 3 lines; top obverse = bottom reverse. Obverse palimpsest; traces of at least two earlier texts (one in black ink, the other in red). Damaged; ends of obv. 1-4 and beginnings of rev. 1 and 2 lost, only traces of obv. 5 and rev. 3; perhaps some lines lost at bottom of obverse.
Classification:	letter (obv.?)
Keywords:	goat(?) (see Remarks) - stone utensils(?)
Provenance:	Valley of Kings, workmen's houses between KV 17 (Seti I) and KV 21; Davis/Ayrton excavations 1907-1908; mark: Davis 07-8 HO; see Reeves, Valley of the Kings , 307.
Publication:	Černý, Ostraca Caire , 79, 92* and 93*, pl. XCVI (description, transcription; facsimile of obv.); W. Helck, Die Beziehungen Aegyptens zu Vorderasien im 3. und 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr. (Aegyptologische Abhandlungen 5; 2nd ed.), Wiesbaden 1971, 529 (transcription and transliteration of obv. 1-4); S h isha-Halevy, Orientalia N.S. 47 (1978), 145-162 (facsimile, transcription, transliteration, translation and commentary of obv.)
Dates mentioned:	-
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 20 (Černý; Shisha-Halevy)
Contents:	Obv.: text in a semitic language (Phoenician? Shisha-Halevy) about handing over a goat and about millstones(? ) ( see Remarks). Rev. Egyptian text, obscure: (1) mention of Snw "tree"; (2): [...] aA niw.t n [...].
Terminology:	-
Names/Titles:	BdryDtnym (? obv. 3 - according to Shisha-Halevy; Černý: Brrymnym ?)
Remarks:	Keywords, Content: aTm = Hebrew azm "goat" (Sisha-Halevy) contested by J.E. Hoch, Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period , Princeton, New Jersey 1994, 84 and 85.