O. Ashmolean Museum 0177 | |
Other nos.: | O. Gardiner 0177 |
Description: | Yellow pottery, 9 x 7.5 cms. Two sides; obverse: nine lines; reverse: remains of ten lines. Text on obverse is perpendicular to text on reverse. Damaged; left and bottom edges have broken away. The text on reverse is much rubbed off, leaving just traces at most spots. |
Classification: | letter |
Keywords: | illness - message - oath - seed - vegetables - Htp |
Provenance: | No indication |
Publication: | Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VII, 305 (transcription); McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt , 56 no. 28 (translation of obverse 1-7) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | Dyn. 20, Ramesses III (Kitchen) |
Contents: | Letter from aA-mk.t to a lady about a message asking for medicin which had gone astray. |
Terminology: | wAH PtH wAH 9Hwty (obv. 6; see Remarks); hAb (obv. 2, 4) |
Names/Titles: | aA-mk.t (obv. 1); PtH (deity; obv. 6) ; 9Hwty (deity; obv. 6) |
Remarks: | Terminology: this oath also used in another letter by the same person, O. DeM 0446. |