The Deir el-Medina Database

O. DeM 00902

Other nos.: O. IFAO 01598; O. IFAO inv. no. SA 08957

Description: Limestone, 4 x 6 cm. Inscribed on two sides in black ink, obverse 6 lines, reverse 4 lines. Top obverse = top reverse. Damaged: ends and beginnings of obverse1-5 lost, only traces remain of obverse 6, only traces remain of reverse 1, beginnings and ends of reverse 2-4 lost.

Classification: journal : absence - name

Keywords: illness(?) - inactivity

Provenance: Deir el-Medina, Kom du Grand Puits, 03-02-1950, mark: KGP 3.2.50.

Publication: Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 3, 75-76, 320 (photographs, facsimile, transcription, description, transliteration, translation, commentary).

Dates mentioned: II Smw sw 14 (obv. 3); II Smw [...] (obv. 4); [...] Smw sw 7 (rev. 2); [...] Smw sw 8 (rev. 3)

Dates attributed: End dyn. 19, Amenmesse, or Seti II, or Siptah (Grandet).

Contents: Journal of workmen's days of absence from work.

Terminology: aHa n NN (obv. ~3#, ~5# (?) - see Remarks; rev. ~2#?, ~3#?); mr (rev. ~4#?; see Remarks)

Names/Titles: Ipwy (obv. ~2#); Nb-nfr sA Pn-nbw (obv. ~5#?; see Remarks) ; 1y (obv. ~4#); 2Am.y (obv. ~ 2 # ); Incomplete: I [...] (obv. 3; possibly Ipwy ; see Remarks); [...]- nfr (rev. 4); [...]- nxt (obv. 1); [...] ( sS ; rev. 2?)

Remarks: Terminology: the reading of the trace at the beginning of obverse 5 as aHa n (?) is suggested by Černý, Notebook 116.55 . Cf. Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 76. The reading mr (rev. ~4#?) is by Černý, Notebook 116.55. Cf. Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 76. Names, Titles: the restoration Nb-nfr sA Pn-nbw (obv. ~5#) is probable in view of the date of the text. Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 76. However, the translation given by the editor shows (erroneously) the restoration Nb-nfr sA Pn-6A-wr.t ( obv. ~5#). Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 76. Restoration Ipwy (obv. 3?) by Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 75, 76.

Record last updated 2007-02-08

	O. DeM 00902
Other nos.:	O. IFAO 01598; O. IFAO inv. no. SA 08957

Description:	Limestone, 4 x 6 cm. Inscribed on two sides in black ink, obverse 6 lines, reverse 4 lines. Top obverse = top reverse. Damaged: ends and beginnings of obverse1-5 lost, only traces remain of obverse 6, only traces remain of reverse 1, beginnings and ends of reverse 2-4 lost.
Classification:	journal : absence - name
Keywords:	illness(?) - inactivity
Provenance:	Deir el-Medina, Kom du Grand Puits, 03-02-1950, mark: KGP 3.2.50.
Publication:	Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 3, 75-76, 320 (photographs, facsimile, transcription, description, transliteration, translation, commentary).
Dates mentioned:	II Smw sw 14 (obv. 3); II Smw [...] (obv. 4); [...] Smw sw 7 (rev. 2); [...] Smw sw 8 (rev. 3)
Dates attributed:	End dyn. 19, Amenmesse, or Seti II, or Siptah (Grandet).
Contents:	Journal of workmen's days of absence from work.
Terminology:	aHa n NN (obv. ~3#, ~5# (?) - see Remarks; rev. ~2#?, ~3#?); mr (rev. ~4#?; see Remarks)
Names/Titles:	Ipwy (obv. ~2#); Nb-nfr sA Pn-nbw (obv. ~5#?; see Remarks) ; 1y (obv. ~4#); 2Am.y (obv. ~ 2 # ); Incomplete: I [...] (obv. 3; possibly Ipwy ; see Remarks); [...]- nfr (rev. 4); [...]- nxt (obv. 1); [...] ( sS ; rev. 2?)
Remarks:	Terminology: the reading of the trace at the beginning of obverse 5 as aHa n (?) is suggested by Černý, Notebook 116.55 . Cf. Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 76. The reading mr (rev. ~4#?) is by Černý, Notebook 116.55. Cf. Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 76. Names, Titles: the restoration Nb-nfr sA Pn-nbw (obv. ~5#) is probable in view of the date of the text. Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 76. However, the translation given by the editor shows (erroneously) the restoration Nb-nfr sA Pn-6A-wr.t ( obv. ~5#). Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 76. Restoration Ipwy (obv. 3?) by Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 75, 76.