The Deir el-Medina Database

O. DeM 00593

Other nos.: -

Description: Limestone, 7 x 11.5 cm. Black ink, one side, 4 lines. Damaged at top; only traces of line 1.

Classification: account : payment

Keywords: copper - payment

Provenance: Deir el-Medina; Grand Puits, 04-01-1951

Publication: Sauneron, Ostraca Deir El Medineh [VI], 9, pls. 22 and 22a (description, transcription, facsimile); Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 142, no. 135 (translation); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VI, 374 (transcription); McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt , 177, no. 132 (translation, commentary)

Dates mentioned: -

Dates attributed: Dyn. 20, Ramesses VI (Kitchen)

Contents: The workman 1r sells(?) a plot of land for 5 copper dbn , in front of two witnesses.

Terminology: m bAH NN (3-4); swn.t=f (3)

Names/Titles: Any-nxt (idn.w ; 4); 1r sA 1y-nfr (rmT-is.t ; ~2#); 2a (for In-Hr-xa ; aA n is.t ; 3)

Remarks: For the transaction, see Janssen, Commodity Prices , 396.

Record last updated 2006-07-28

	O. DeM 00593
Other nos.:	-

Description:	Limestone, 7 x 11.5 cm. Black ink, one side, 4 lines. Damaged at top; only traces of line 1.
Classification:	account : payment
Keywords:	copper - payment
Provenance:	Deir el-Medina; Grand Puits, 04-01-1951
Publication:	Sauneron, Ostraca Deir El Medineh [VI], 9, pls. 22 and 22a (description, transcription, facsimile); Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 142, no. 135 (translation); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VI, 374 (transcription); McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt , 177, no. 132 (translation, commentary)
Dates mentioned:	-
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 20, Ramesses VI (Kitchen)
Contents:	The workman 1r sells(?) a plot of land for 5 copper dbn , in front of two witnesses.
Terminology:	m bAH NN (3-4); swn.t=f (3)
Names/Titles:	Any-nxt (idn.w ; 4); 1r sA 1y-nfr (rmT-is.t ; ~2#); 2a (for In-Hr-xa ; aA n is.t ; 3)
Remarks:	For the transaction, see Janssen, Commodity Prices , 396.