The Deir el-Medina Database

O. DeM 00073 obverse

Other nos.: O. IFAO 00338

Description: Limestone , 7.5 x 13 cms. Damaged. Two sides, with both obverse and reverse containing 4 lines in black ink. Chips have broken off the ostracon, causing loss of writing in obverse 1-2 and reverse 3.

Classification: dispute - transfer

Keywords: donkey - oath

Provenance: Deir el-Medina, Region basse au sud du temple (according to Clere MSS.); mark: ST 27.12.30 (27-12-1930)

Publication: Černý, Ostraca Deir El Medineh [I], 20 (description), pl. 50-50 A (photograph, transcription); Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 88-89 no. 56 (translation, commentary); David, Legal Register , 239 (transliteration, translation); Helck, Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka , 240-241 (translation) ; Helck, Materialien III, (499) (translation); Janssen, Donkeys at Deir el-Medina , 36 (summary of contents, commentary); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions V, 472-473 (transcription)

Dates mentioned: rnp.t-sp 20 II Ax.t sw 10 (1)

Dates attributed: Dyn. 20, y ear 20 Ramesses III (all authors)

Contents: A conflict about a bad donkey is fought before the scribe of the mat Imn-nxt . The donkey is replaced. An oath is sworn.

Terminology: anx n nb anx wDA snb (4); m bAH NN (2); r DbA=f (4); hrw pn Dd ir.n NN Hna NN (1-2); swD (3)

Names/Titles: Any-nxt (2); Imn-nxt (sS n tmA ; 2); 0rw-nfr (od ; ~1#)

Remarks: According to Allam same scribe as O. DeM 00 073 reverse. Helck considers O. DeM 00 073 reverse to be part of the same text.

Record last updated 2010-10-08

	O. DeM 00073 obverse
Other nos.:	O. IFAO 00338

Description:	Limestone , 7.5 x 13 cms. Damaged. Two sides, with both obverse and reverse containing 4 lines in black ink. Chips have broken off the ostracon, causing loss of writing in obverse 1-2 and reverse 3.
Classification:	dispute - transfer
Keywords:	donkey - oath
Provenance:	Deir el-Medina, Region basse au sud du temple (according to Clere MSS.); mark: ST 27.12.30 (27-12-1930)
Publication:	Černý, Ostraca Deir El Medineh [I], 20 (description), pl. 50-50 A (photograph, transcription); Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 88-89 no. 56 (translation, commentary); David, Legal Register , 239 (transliteration, translation); Helck, Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka , 240-241 (translation) ; Helck, Materialien III, (499) (translation); Janssen, Donkeys at Deir el-Medina , 36 (summary of contents, commentary); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions V, 472-473 (transcription)
Dates mentioned:	rnp.t-sp 20 II Ax.t sw 10 (1)
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 20, y ear 20 Ramesses III (all authors)
Contents:	A conflict about a bad donkey is fought before the scribe of the mat Imn-nxt . The donkey is replaced. An oath is sworn.
Terminology:	anx n nb anx wDA snb (4); m bAH NN (2); r DbA=f (4); hrw pn Dd ir.n NN Hna NN (1-2); swD (3)
Names/Titles:	Any-nxt (2); Imn-nxt (sS n tmA ; 2); 0rw-nfr (od ; ~1#)
Remarks:	According to Allam same scribe as O. DeM 00 073 reverse. Helck considers O. DeM 00 073 reverse to be part of the same text.