The Deir el-Medina Database

O. DeM 00117

Other nos.: O. IFAO 00410

Description: Fragment of red pottery dish with rim, 10 x 11.5 cm. Black ink, one side (inner side of dish), 4 lines. Complete, minor damage at the end of line 1.

Classification: letter

Keywords: textile - vegetables

Provenance: no indication

Publication: Černý, Ostraca Deir El Medineh II, 2, pls. 3 and 3A (description, transcription, facsimile); Kitchen, Pharaoh Triumphant , 198 (translation); McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt , 41, no. 15.A (translation, commentary); Wente, Letters , 156, no. 228 (translation)

Dates mentioned: -

Dates attributed: Dyn. 19 (Černý), Ramesses II (Wente)

Contents: Letter from Nbw-Hr-mAa.w to her sister Nb.t-Iwn.t about the transfer of a tunic and the picking(?) of vegetables (Hw wAD.w ).

Terminology: Hna Dd (2); Dd.n NN NN (1)

Names/Titles: Nb.t-Iwn.t (sn.t of Nbw-Hr-mAa.w ; f.; ~1# = Nb.t-Iwn.w ? see Remarks); Nbw-Hr-mAa.w (f.; 1)

Remarks: Nb.t-Iwn.t (~1#) = Nb.t-Iwn.w (O. DeM 0 0 116 obv. 1)? Note that ostraca DeM 0 0 116 and 0 0 117 also have consecutive IFAO-numbers: found together?

Record last updated 2006-07-26

	O. DeM 00117
Other nos.:	O. IFAO 00410

Description:	Fragment of red pottery dish with rim, 10 x 11.5 cm. Black ink, one side (inner side of dish), 4 lines. Complete, minor damage at the end of line 1.
Classification:	letter
Keywords:	textile - vegetables
Provenance:	no indication
Publication:	Černý, Ostraca Deir El Medineh II, 2, pls. 3 and 3A (description, transcription, facsimile); Kitchen, Pharaoh Triumphant , 198 (translation); McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt , 41, no. 15.A (translation, commentary); Wente, Letters , 156, no. 228 (translation)
Dates mentioned:	-
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 19 (Černý), Ramesses II (Wente)
Contents:	Letter from Nbw-Hr-mAa.w to her sister Nb.t-Iwn.t about the transfer of a tunic and the picking(?) of vegetables (Hw wAD.w ).
Terminology:	Hna Dd (2); Dd.n NN NN (1)
Names/Titles:	Nb.t-Iwn.t (sn.t of Nbw-Hr-mAa.w ; f.; ~1# = Nb.t-Iwn.w ? see Remarks); Nbw-Hr-mAa.w (f.; 1)
Remarks:	Nb.t-Iwn.t (~1#) = Nb.t-Iwn.w (O. DeM 0 0 116 obv. 1)? Note that ostraca DeM 0 0 116 and 0 0 117 also have consecutive IFAO-numbers: found together?