O. Ashmolean Museum 0140 | |
Other nos.: | O. Gardiner 0140 |
Description: | Limestone, 8 x 13 cms. Damaged. Two sides: obverse and reverse with each 5 lines in black ink. Bottom broken and beginnings and ends of most lines on both obverse and reverse slightly effaced or missing. Top obverse = top reverse. |
Classification: | deposition - note : hire(?) - transfer |
Keywords: | donkey - grain - message - offering - pregnancy |
Provenance: | No indication |
Publication: | Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 180-181 no. 179, with pl. 42 (description, transcription, translation and commentary); David, Legal Register , 246-247 (transliteration, translation); Helck, Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka , 252 (translation) ; Janssen, Donkeys at Deir el-Medina , 48 (summary of contents, commentary); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions V, 490-491 (transcription) |
Dates mentioned: | rnp.t-sp 24 III Smw sw 5 or III Smw sw 6 (rev. 1); rnp.t-sp 20+x II Ax.t sw 20 (obv. 1; see Remarks) |
Dates attributed: | Dyn. 20, year 24 Ramesses III (Allam, David, Kitchen, Helck) |
Contents: | A she-ass is hired out to the chief policeman MnTw-ms by the chief workman 2nsw ordering him to let the animal carry offerings southwards to a goddess. A few months later the doorkeeper Pn-pA-iw declares that the chief workman has written to the chief policeman that he wants his she-ass back which he gave to him while she was pregnant. See Remarks. |
Terminology: | m Dd (obv. 3); r Dd (rev. 3); hAb (obv. 2); hrw pn (rev. 1); di.t tA aA.t n NN in NN r Dd (rev. 2-3); Dd NN (obv. 2) |
Names/Titles: | Pn-pA-iw (ir.y-aA ; obv. 2 (or Pn-pA-mr ); see Remarks); MnTw-ms (Hr.y-mDAy ; obv. 3, rev. 2); Ra.t-tA.wy (f.; deity; rev. 4); 2nsw (aA n is.t ; obv. 2, rev. 3) |
Remarks: | Dates mentioned: Allam reads "year 10" in obv. 1, but this is contradicted by a note in Černý Notebook 45.42. Contents: "Obverse" and "reverse" as originally labelled, and later doubted, by Černý, but maintained by the editors. Names, Titles: Allam reads this name as PtH-pA-1apj . |