The Deir el-Medina Database

O. BTdK 708

Other nos.: O. KV 18/3.494

Description: Limestone, 8.4 x 12.8 x 0.7 cm. Inscribed on two sides: on obverse 5 lines and on reverse 4 lines in black ink. Top obverse = bottom reverse. Damaged: broken off on all sides; beginnings and ends of all lines on obverse and reverse missing; of obverse line 5 only traces subsist.

Classification: letter

Keywords: document - drinking - house

Provenance: Valley of Kings, workmen's huts near KV 18. Findspot: B.AH-O.Hütte14.A2 (see Remarks)

Publication: Dorn, Arbeiterhütten , 437-438 (description, transliteration, translation and commentary), pls. 591-593 (photographs, facsimiles and transcriptions)

Dates mentioned: -

Dates attributed: Mid dyn. 20 (Dorn)

Contents: Incomplete lines of a letter, mentioning i.a. Any-nxt , the praise of Horus and prayer to Amun.

Terminology: sS (obv. 3). Incomplete: ky swDA-ib n pA[...] (obv. 1)

Names/Titles: an. ( Pr-aA anx wDA snb, pAy=n nb nfr ; rev. 3); Imn (deity; rev. 3); Any-nxt (obv. 2); 1r (deity; obv. 2)

Remarks: Provenance: for the findspot identification see Dorn, Arbeiterhütten , 17-19.

Record last updated 2012-08-26

	O. BTdK 708
Other nos.:	O. KV 18/3.494

Description:	Limestone, 8.4 x 12.8 x 0.7 cm. Inscribed on two sides: on obverse 5 lines and on reverse 4 lines in black ink. Top obverse = bottom reverse. Damaged: broken off on all sides; beginnings and ends of all lines on obverse and reverse missing; of obverse line 5 only traces subsist.
Classification:	letter
Keywords:	document - drinking - house
Provenance:	Valley of Kings, workmen's huts near KV 18. Findspot: B.AH-O.Hütte14.A2 (see Remarks)
Publication:	Dorn, Arbeiterhütten , 437-438 (description, transliteration, translation and commentary), pls. 591-593 (photographs, facsimiles and transcriptions)
Dates mentioned:	-
Dates attributed:	Mid dyn. 20 (Dorn)
Contents:	Incomplete lines of a letter, mentioning i.a. Any-nxt , the praise of Horus and prayer to Amun.
Terminology:	sS (obv. 3). Incomplete: ky swDA-ib n pA[...] (obv. 1)
Names/Titles:	an. ( Pr-aA anx wDA snb, pAy=n nb nfr ; rev. 3); Imn (deity; rev. 3); Any-nxt (obv. 2); 1r (deity; obv. 2)
Remarks:	Provenance: for the findspot identification see Dorn, Arbeiterhütten , 17-19.