P. BM EA 10731 recto | |
Other nos.: | - |
Description: | Papyrus, 33 x 19 cm. Black ink, two sides; recto (V/H) 3 lines with ample margins above, beneath and to the right; verso (H/V) 6 lines with margin beneath (see Remarks). Top recto = top verso. Recto and verso same hand. Palimpsest; traces of previous text on recto and verso. Damaged (fragmentary); ends of lines on recto lost, beginnings of lines on verso lost. |
Classification: | letter |
Keywords: | document - message |
Provenance: | Formerly in the possession of P.E. Newberry; after his death given to the British Museum by Mrs Newberry in 1950. |
Publication: | Edwards, JEA 54 (1968), 155-158, pls. XXIV and XXIV A (description, photograph, translation, commentary); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions IV, 181 (transcription) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | Dyn. 19, second half (Edwards); Merenptah (Kitchen) |
Contents: | Model(?) letter by a royal fanbearer (and vizier?) to the scribe On-Hr-xpS=f . See Remarks. |
Terminology: | NN Dd n NN r nty (recto ~1-2#?); hAb (recto 3); sS pn (recto 2) |
Names/Titles: | On-Hr-xpS=f ( sS ; recto 2) Incomplete: [...] ( sS-nswt mry=f TAy-xwy Hr wnmy-nswt [...]; recto ~1#) |
Remarks: | Description, Contents: verso magical spell also mentioning the scribe On-Hr-xpS=f . For the connection between this document and the Chester Beatty, DeM and Naunakhte papyri, cf. Pestman, in: Gleanings , 155. |