O. Cairo CG 25815a | |
Other nos.: | O. Cairo JE 96252; O. Cairo SR 01416; O. Cairo Carnarvon 300 c + O. Cairo Carnarvon 300 r |
Description: | Limestone, 8.5 x 11 cm, in 2 fragments. Belongs to O. Cairo CG 25815b? See Remarks. Black ink, obverse 5 lines, reverse 6 lines, top obverse = bottom reverse. Correction by scribe in obv. 4. Damaged; beginnings of obv. 4, 5, rev. 1, 2 lost, ends of obv. 2, 3, rev. 5, 6 lost, only traces of obv. 1, unknown number of lines lost on top. |
Classification: | account - journal : deficit - event |
Keywords: | feast - working |
Provenance: | Valley of Kings, beside entrance of KV 9 (Ramesses VI); Carnarvon/Carter excavations 1920-1921 (see Remarks); marks: 300 c; 300 r; see Reeves, Valley of the Kings , 328. |
Publication: | Černý, Ostraca Caire , 96, 117*, pl. CXIII (description, transcription, facsimile); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions III, 567 (transcription) |
Dates mentioned: | III Smw sw 6 (obv. 2); I Smw sw 16-20 (rev. ~2#, 3, 4, 5, 6) |
Dates attributed: | mid Dyn. 19 (Černý); Ramesses II (Kitchen) |
Contents: | Daily entries mentioning carpenters at work, measures expressed in cubits(?), other numbers and the words Hb "feast" and wn "opening"(?). |
Terminology: | ir n (obv. 4, ~5#); wDA.t (obv. 4); m a NN (obv. 4) |
Names/Titles: | an. (nA n Hmw.w ; obv. 3); 4bA (obv. 4) |
Remarks: | Description: belongs to O. Cairo CG 25815b according to Černý, although the two ostraca do not match. Černý: position of 25815a probably above b, but note: 25815a top obverse = bottom reverse, but b reverse blank. Note also: nA n Hmw.w in a obv. 3, but nA Hmw.w in b 6. Provenance: Černý has "1922"(sic). |