O. DeM 00551 | |
Other nos.: | - |
Description: | Limestone, 5.5 x 10.5 cm. Black ink, obverse 7 lines, reverse 6 lines, top obverse = bottom reverse. Correction by scribe in obv. 4. Palimpsest; clear traces of former text (see Remarks) especially on reverse. Complete. |
Classification: | account - letter : transfer |
Keywords: | bread - flowers - incense - leather - offering - paint |
Provenance: | Deir el-Medina; Kom du Grand Puits, 18-12-1950 |
Publication: | Sauneron, Ostraca Deir El Medineh [VI], 1, pls. 1 and 1a (description, transcription, facsimile); Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 126, no. 114 (translation); Donker van Heel, in: Village Voices , 23 and 24 (translation, commentary); McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt , 97, no. 68.B (translation, commentary); Wente, Letters , 139, no. 173 (translation) |
Dates mentioned: | sw 18 (rev. 4); sw 19 (rev. 6) |
Dates attributed: | Dyn. 20? (Donker van Heel); Dyn. 19 (Wente) |
Contents: | Obverse: list of items delivered to the addressee by the washerman OA . Reverse: request to send leaves(?) and flowers to some people for the performance of an offering cult (wAH mw ). |
Terminology: | iny.t n=k m Dr.t NN (obv. 1-2); m mi.t.t (obv. 6) |
Names/Titles: | OA (rxt.y ; obv. 1-2) |
Remarks: | Former text on ostracon possibly account of textiles and their prices (Sauneron) |