O. DeM 00357 | |
Other nos.: | O. IFAO 00781 |
Description: | Pottery sherd, 8 x 11 cm, in three pieces, two of which join to form fragment (a), while the position of the third (b) remains uncertain (probably lower part). Black ink, one side, (a) 5 lines, (b) ends of 4 lines. Correction by scribe in line a 1. Damaged; ends of lines on (a) lost, lacuna in middle of (a) line 4, beginnings of lines on (b) lost, unknown number of lines lost. |
Classification: | letter - oath(?) |
Keywords: | cattle - oath (? see Remarks) |
Provenance: | Deir el-Medina; excavations Bruyere, found in debris in 1937-1938. |
Publication: | Černý, Ostraca Deir El Medineh V, 5, pls. 5 and 5 A (description, transcription, facsimile) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | Dyn. 19 (Černý) |
Contents: | Letter by the scribe Ra-mry to Nfr-rnp.t about some property, perhaps the cattle mentioned on fragment (b), which also seems to be the subject of an oath. |
Terminology: | aro (a ~2#? see Remarks); NN n NN m anx wDA snb Hna Dd (a 1) Incomplete [...] Imn pA HoA (a 7; for wAH Imn wAH pA HoA ?) |
Names/Titles: | Imn pA HoA (deity; b ~7#; or oath formula?); PiAy (a 2); Nfr-rnp.t (a 1); Ra-mry (sS ; a 1) |
Remarks: | Keywords, Terminology: the signs in the middle of line 2 on fragment (a) might be the determinatives of aro 'oath', but it is difficult to reconcile the preceding traces with this. |