P. BM EA 10418 + P. BM EA 10287
Other nos.: P. Salt 1821/156;P. Salt 1821/165;P. Salt 1821/126; 9 A.81; 8 A.115
  
Description: Papyrus sheet, 14 x 21 cm. (2 fragments joined). Damaged. Recto V/H, verso H/V. In black ink 5 lines of writing on the recto and 3 lines on the verso. Upper left-hand corner missing and left-hand edge damaged, causing loss of writing in line 1 and the end of line 4 of the recto and the end of line 3 of the verso.
Classification: letter
Keywords: arrival - conflict - message
Provenance: Acquired by the British Museum in 1821 with the collection of H. Salt formed in 1818 or 1819 in Thebes.
Publication: Janssen, Late Ramesside Letters and Communications , 33-36 (description, translation and commentary), pls. 19-22 (transcriptions and photographs).
Dates mentioned: -
Dates attributed: Late dyn. 20 (Janssen)
Contents: A brief note concerning some people who had threatened to beat up an unnamed lady. See Remarks
Terminology: hAb (recto 5-verso 1)
Names/Titles: an. (nA rmT ; recto 1); an. (nA rmT nmH.w ; verso 3); an. (rmT ; recto 2); aDr (recto 5; verso 1); Niw.t (geo.; recto 2 (?)); Rt (f.; recto 4 (tAy=s sn.t Sri.t )). Incomplete: [...] is (f.; recto 5)
Remarks: Contents: According to Janssen there may be a link between this note and the letter P. BM EA 10416.

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