O. DeM 00605 | |
Other nos.: | - |
Description: | Grey-yellow pottery sherd, 7.5 x 11 cm. Black ink, one side (exterior), three lines. Palimpsest; line 3 correction over erased text. Complete. |
Classification: | letter |
Keywords: | dates - grain - water |
Provenance: | Deir el-Medina; Kom du Grand Puits, 26-12-1950 |
Publication: | Sauneron, Ostraca Deir El Medineh [VI], 11, pls. 25 and 25a (description; transcription, facsimile); Wente, Letters , 159, no. 241 (translation) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | Second half Dyn. 20 (Wente) |
Contents: | Anonymous writer to one BAk , with the request to prepare (ferment? Wente) some grain and dates and to bring them. See Remarks. |
Terminology: | n NN (1) |
Names/Titles: | BAk (1) |
Remarks: | 6A-xA (lines 1-2; Wente: 'to ferment'?) obscure; writing of txi 'to become intoxicated'? Cf. also txtx 'to confuse' ( Wb V, 328, 8-13) and Demotic tX 'to mix' (W. Erichsen, Demotisches Glossar , Copenhagen 1954, 654; J. Černý, Coptic Etymological Dictionary , Cambridge 1976, 203). |