The Deir el-Medina Database

O. Prague 1826

Other nos.: HO 70, 2; O. N�prstek Museum P 2027

Description: Red pottery, 1 4.9 x 11 .5 cms , thickness 1 cm . One side with eleven lines in black ink. Complete.

Classification: letter

Keywords: beer - bread - conflict - divorce - fish - grain

Provenance: No indication

Publication: Černý-Gardiner, Hieratic Ostraca , 20 (description) and pl. 70-70A no. 2 (facsimile, transcription); Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 246 no. 249 (translation, commentary); Černý, Casopis Narodniho 115 (1946), 27-31 (facsimile and translation in Czech); McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt , 42 no. 16 (translation) ; B. Vachala, in: J. Mynárová and P. Onderka ed., Thebes. City of Gods and Pharaohs , Prague 2007, 273 (photograph, description, translation, commentary); Vachala, in: Times, Signs and Pyramids , 423-427 (photograph, facsimile, transcription, transliteration, translation, commentary); Wente, Letters , 147-148 no. 200 (translation)

Dates mentioned: -

Dates attributed: D yn. 19 (Wente, Vachala); late Dyn. 19, Seti II (Vachala)

Contents: Letter from a woman 6A-xnt.y.t-Sps.t to her sister Ii asking her to grind emmer and make bread; also about a quarrel with her husband who has threatened to divorce her.

Terminology: Dd.n NN n NN m anx wDA snb Hna Dd r nty (1-~2#)

Names/Titles: an. ( mw.t of 6A-xnty.t-Sps.t ; f.; 5, 6); an. ( sn.w of 6A-xnty.t-Sps.t ; 7); Ii (f.; ~2#); Mry-mAa.t (4); Km.t (geo.; 11); 6A-xnty.t-Sps.t (f.; 1)

Remarks: -

Record last updated 2013-03-28

	O. Prague 1826
Other nos.:	HO 70, 2; O. N�prstek Museum P 2027

Description:	Red pottery, 1 4.9 x 11 .5 cms , thickness 1 cm . One side with eleven lines in black ink. Complete.
Classification:	letter
Keywords:	beer - bread - conflict - divorce - fish - grain
Provenance:	No indication
Publication:	Černý-Gardiner, Hieratic Ostraca , 20 (description) and pl. 70-70A no. 2 (facsimile, transcription); Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 246 no. 249 (translation, commentary); Černý, Casopis Narodniho 115 (1946), 27-31 (facsimile and translation in Czech); McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt , 42 no. 16 (translation) ; B. Vachala, in: J. Mynárová and P. Onderka ed., Thebes. City of Gods and Pharaohs , Prague 2007, 273 (photograph, description, translation, commentary); Vachala, in: Times, Signs and Pyramids , 423-427 (photograph, facsimile, transcription, transliteration, translation, commentary); Wente, Letters , 147-148 no. 200 (translation)
Dates mentioned:	-
Dates attributed:	D yn. 19 (Wente, Vachala); late Dyn. 19, Seti II (Vachala)
Contents:	Letter from a woman 6A-xnt.y.t-Sps.t to her sister Ii asking her to grind emmer and make bread; also about a quarrel with her husband who has threatened to divorce her.
Terminology:	Dd.n NN n NN m anx wDA snb Hna Dd r nty (1-~2#)
Names/Titles:	an. ( mw.t of 6A-xnty.t-Sps.t ; f.; 5, 6); an. ( sn.w of 6A-xnty.t-Sps.t ; 7); Ii (f.; ~2#); Mry-mAa.t (4); Km.t (geo.; 11); 6A-xnty.t-Sps.t (f.; 1)
Remarks:	-