The Deir el-Medina Database

P. DeM 15

Other nos.: P. DeM 16; see Remarks

Description: Papyrus strip, 33.7 x 5 cm. Black ink, one side (V/H), 3 lines. Damaged, end of line 2 lost, trace of line 3.

Classification: letter

Keywords: meat - oath

Provenance: Probably excavations Deir el-Medina 1928; trapezoid space south of P 1165 (Posener, in: Černý, P. DeM I, vii)

Publication: Černý, Papyrus Deir El Medineh I, 26, pls. 30 and 30a (description, transcription, photograph); Posener, in Studies in Egyptian Religion , 121-126 (transcription, translation, commentary); Wente, Letters , 140, no. 179 (translation)

Dates mentioned: -

Dates attributed: mid-Dyn. 20 (Wente)

Contents: Letter from a carpenter 2nsw to his mother, Nfr.t-xa . 2nsw has broken his oath, not to eat a haunch and a tripe, and wishes to be forgiven by the god by whom he has sworn. See Remarks.

Terminology: aro (2); m anx wDA snb (1); NN n NN (1); Hna Dd r nty (1-2)

Names/Titles: Nfr.t-xa (anx n niw.t ; mw.t of 2nsw ; f.; 1); 2nsw (Hmw.w ; 1)

Remarks: Numbers : this document is referred to as "P. DeM 16" in Černý Notebook 113.18 and in Černý MSS.3.282 (Magee, Malek, Checklist , 17). Contents: t race in line 3 of =f in [im]=f or [n]=f ? For the connection between this document and the Chester Beatty, other DeM and Naunakhte papyri, cf. Pestman, in: Gleanings , 155.

Record last updated 2007-10-02

	P. DeM 15
Other nos.:	P. DeM 16; see Remarks

Description:	Papyrus strip, 33.7 x 5 cm. Black ink, one side (V/H), 3 lines. Damaged, end of line 2 lost, trace of line 3.
Classification:	letter
Keywords:	meat - oath
Provenance:	Probably excavations Deir el-Medina 1928; trapezoid space south of P 1165 (Posener, in: Černý, P. DeM I, vii)
Publication:	Černý, Papyrus Deir El Medineh I, 26, pls. 30 and 30a (description, transcription, photograph); Posener, in Studies in Egyptian Religion , 121-126 (transcription, translation, commentary); Wente, Letters , 140, no. 179 (translation)
Dates mentioned:	-
Dates attributed:	mid-Dyn. 20 (Wente)
Contents:	Letter from a carpenter 2nsw to his mother, Nfr.t-xa . 2nsw has broken his oath, not to eat a haunch and a tripe, and wishes to be forgiven by the god by whom he has sworn. See Remarks.
Terminology:	aro (2); m anx wDA snb (1); NN n NN (1); Hna Dd r nty (1-2)
Names/Titles:	Nfr.t-xa (anx n niw.t ; mw.t of 2nsw ; f.; 1); 2nsw (Hmw.w ; 1)
Remarks:	Numbers : this document is referred to as "P. DeM 16" in Černý Notebook 113.18 and in Černý MSS.3.282 (Magee, Malek, Checklist , 17). Contents: t race in line 3 of =f in [im]=f or [n]=f ? For the connection between this document and the Chester Beatty, other DeM and Naunakhte papyri, cf. Pestman, in: Gleanings , 155.