O. UC 39657 | |
Other nos.: | HO 73, 2; O. Petrie 62 |
Description: | Red pottery with white slip, 13. 3 x 1 1.9 cms. Two sides; obverse (convex): seven lines; reverse: five lines. Black ink. Damaged; right lower corner of obverse has broken off; some ink erased in reverse line 2. Top obverse = top reverse. |
Classification: | letter |
Keywords: | document (?) - message - papyrus - storehouse - woodwork - xtm |
Provenance: | No indication |
Publication: | Černý-Gardiner, Hieratic Ostraca , 21 (description) and pl. 73-73A no. 2 (facsimile, transcription); Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 243 no. 244 (translation, commentary); Wente, Letters , 165 no. 270 (translation) ; http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk (photograph of obverse, description) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | D yn. 19 (Wente) |
Contents: | Letter of a scribe to a woman asking her to send writing materials and inquiring about the health of several people. |
Terminology: | r-a-sS (obv. 5); rx.t (rev. 2); hAb (obv. 3) |
Names/Titles: | Bs.t (f.; rev. ~4#); Nfr.y (obv. ~1#-2); 6A-Dd.t-Dpyti (?) (f.; rev. 3-~4#) |
Remarks: | - |