O. Prague 1826 | |
Other nos.: | HO 70, 2; O. Náprstek 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: | - |