The Deir el-Medina Database

O. DeM 00148

Other nos.: O. IFAO 00223

Description: Vase fragment of thick beige pottery, 19.5 x 23 cm. Obverse 21 lines, reverse 6 lines, top obverse = bottom reverse, black ink except for obv. 1, 2 (part), 3, 4, 5 (part), 6-17, which are red. Damaged, unknown number of lines lost at beginning of obverse, beginnings of obv. 1-8 and end of obv. 9 lost, lacuna in middle of obv. 7. See Remarks.

Classification: account - journal : delivery - duty - event - name

Keywords: arrival - beer - bread - dates - dung - fish - gang - grain rations - inspection - river-bank - side (of gang) - Valley of Kings - vegetables

Provenance: Deir el-Medina, Kom de decombres au sud du village (according to Clere MSS.), 19-01-1930; marks: KS 19.1.30; 19.1.30 KS; KS

Publication: Černý, Ostraca Deir El Medineh II, 10, pls. 21-23A (description, transcription, photographs); Christophe, BIFAO 52 (1953), 113-144 (transcription, translation, commentary); Helck, Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka , 277 and 278 (translation); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions V, 505 and 506 (transcription)

Dates mentioned: sw 14 (obv. ~7#?); sw 15 (obv. 8); III Ax.t sw 16-30 (obv. 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, rev. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Dates attributed: first half Dyn. 20 (Černý); Ramesses III (Kitchen); year 26 Ramesses III (Helck); year 27 Ramesses III (Christophe)

Contents: Journal entries of the second half of III Ax.t recording guard duties, deliveries of grain rations, dung, bread, beer, oAw , fish, dates and vegetables; investigation by a committee of high officials including the vizier 6A and the high priest of Amun Wsr-MAa.t-Ra-nxt .

Terminology: ir n (obv. 4); wp.t=s (obv. 2); wnmy (obv. 9, 15, 17, rev. 1, 3); m mi.t.t (rev. 5); m hrw pn (obv. 10); hrw n ii ir.n NN (obv. 16, rev. 6); smHy (obv. 9, 17, 20, rev. 2, 4); smtr (obv. 12, 15, 16, rev. 5, 6); Ssp m Dr.t NN (obv. 7); di.t di.w (obv. ~1#); dmD (obv. 2); ditto (obv. 16)

Names/Titles: an. (pA HA.t.y-a n Niw.t ; obv. 14); an. (nA sr.w n tA s.t pA smtr ; obv. 14-15); an. (TAty ; obv. 16, 19, rev. 6); Any-nxt (rev. 2); Ii-r-niw.t=f (obv. 17); Imn-m-Ip.t (sS n tA s.t nA Sa.w.t ; obv. 12-13); Imn-m-Ip.t (obv. 10); Ir-sw (rev. 5); Wsr-mAa.t-Ra-nxt (Hm-nTr tp.y ; obv. 13); Pn-ano.t (wa.w n tA iwa.y.t 2; obv. 14); Pn-ano.t (obv. 11); Pn-6A-wr.t (obv. 18); MnnA (obv. 15); Ms (obv. 12); Nfr-Hr (rev. 3); Nfr-Htp (rev. 4); Nxw-m-Mw.t (obv. 16); Nxt-Mnw (obv. 9); RSw-ptr=f (obv. 10); 1r (obv. 20); 2a-m-WAs.t (obv. 8); 2a-m-tr (im.y-r pr-HD ; obv. 13); 4x.t (geo.; obv. 11); 4x.t aA.t (geo.; obv. 19); OnnA (rev. 1); Ks (obv. 7); 6A (TAty ; obv. 11) Incomplete: Imn- [...] (obv. 7)

Remarks: Description: for the scribe who wrote this text, see Donker van Heel, Haring, Writing in a Workmen's Village , 74 n. 135. Names, Titles: tA iwa.y.t 2 (obv. 14): a (D 36) should be transcribed beneath the bubalis sign (E 9).

Record last updated 2006-07-26

	O. DeM 00148
Other nos.:	O. IFAO 00223

Description:	Vase fragment of thick beige pottery, 19.5 x 23 cm. Obverse 21 lines, reverse 6 lines, top obverse = bottom reverse, black ink except for obv. 1, 2 (part), 3, 4, 5 (part), 6-17, which are red. Damaged, unknown number of lines lost at beginning of obverse, beginnings of obv. 1-8 and end of obv. 9 lost, lacuna in middle of obv. 7. See Remarks.
Classification:	account - journal : delivery - duty - event - name
Keywords:	arrival - beer - bread - dates - dung - fish - gang - grain rations - inspection - river-bank - side (of gang) - Valley of Kings - vegetables
Provenance:	Deir el-Medina, Kom de decombres au sud du village (according to Clere MSS.), 19-01-1930; marks: KS 19.1.30; 19.1.30 KS; KS
Publication:	Černý, Ostraca Deir El Medineh II, 10, pls. 21-23A (description, transcription, photographs); Christophe, BIFAO 52 (1953), 113-144 (transcription, translation, commentary); Helck, Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka , 277 and 278 (translation); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions V, 505 and 506 (transcription)
Dates mentioned:	sw 14 (obv. ~7#?); sw 15 (obv. 8); III Ax.t sw 16-30 (obv. 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, rev. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Dates attributed:	first half Dyn. 20 (Černý); Ramesses III (Kitchen); year 26 Ramesses III (Helck); year 27 Ramesses III (Christophe)
Contents:	Journal entries of the second half of III Ax.t recording guard duties, deliveries of grain rations, dung, bread, beer, oAw , fish, dates and vegetables; investigation by a committee of high officials including the vizier 6A and the high priest of Amun Wsr-MAa.t-Ra-nxt .
Terminology:	ir n (obv. 4); wp.t=s (obv. 2); wnmy (obv. 9, 15, 17, rev. 1, 3); m mi.t.t (rev. 5); m hrw pn (obv. 10); hrw n ii ir.n NN (obv. 16, rev. 6); smHy (obv. 9, 17, 20, rev. 2, 4); smtr (obv. 12, 15, 16, rev. 5, 6); Ssp m Dr.t NN (obv. 7); di.t di.w (obv. ~1#); dmD (obv. 2); ditto (obv. 16)
Names/Titles:	an. (pA HA.t.y-a n Niw.t ; obv. 14); an. (nA sr.w n tA s.t pA smtr ; obv. 14-15); an. (TAty ; obv. 16, 19, rev. 6); Any-nxt (rev. 2); Ii-r-niw.t=f (obv. 17); Imn-m-Ip.t (sS n tA s.t nA Sa.w.t ; obv. 12-13); Imn-m-Ip.t (obv. 10); Ir-sw (rev. 5); Wsr-mAa.t-Ra-nxt (Hm-nTr tp.y ; obv. 13); Pn-ano.t (wa.w n tA iwa.y.t 2; obv. 14); Pn-ano.t (obv. 11); Pn-6A-wr.t (obv. 18); MnnA (obv. 15); Ms (obv. 12); Nfr-Hr (rev. 3); Nfr-Htp (rev. 4); Nxw-m-Mw.t (obv. 16); Nxt-Mnw (obv. 9); RSw-ptr=f (obv. 10); 1r (obv. 20); 2a-m-WAs.t (obv. 8); 2a-m-tr (im.y-r pr-HD ; obv. 13); 4x.t (geo.; obv. 11); 4x.t aA.t (geo.; obv. 19); OnnA (rev. 1); Ks (obv. 7); 6A (TAty ; obv. 11) Incomplete: Imn- [...] (obv. 7)
Remarks:	Description: for the scribe who wrote this text, see Donker van Heel, Haring, Writing in a Workmen's Village , 74 n. 135. Names, Titles: tA iwa.y.t 2 (obv. 14): a (D 36) should be transcribed beneath the bubalis sign (E 9).