The Deir el-Medina Database

O. BM EA 05631 obverse

Other nos.: HO 88 obverse

Description: Limestone, 17.5 x 35.5 cm. Black ink, obverse 15 lines, edge (at top left of obverse) 3 lines, reverse 2 lines. Damaged: beginnings of obv. 1-12, edge 1-3 and rev. 1 lost; ends of obv. 6 and 10 lost.

Classification: account - letter

Keywords: arrival - copper - gold - house - jewelry - Necropolis - pig - place - plaster - seal - servant - silver - stall - tools - vessel - work

Provenance: No indication.

Publication: Demarée, Ramesside Ostraca , 17, pl. 19-20 (description, photographs, transcription); Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 48-49 , no. 22 (translation, commentary) ; Birch, Inscriptions in the Hieratic and Demotic Character , pl. X VII I (facsimile); Černý-Gardiner, Hieratic Ostraca , 24 (description) , pl. LXXXVIII ( description, facsimile, transcription) ; Erman, ZÄS 42 (1905), 102-106 (transcription, translation, commentary); Vernus, in: La Cachette de Karnak , 7-11 (transcription, transliteration, translation and commentary of obv. 3-9); Wente, Letters , 146, no. 196 (translation)

Dates mentioned: -

Dates attributed: Dyn. 19 (Wente), Dyn. 19 or Dyn. 20 (Demarée), Ramesses II or Merenptah (Vernus); see Remarks

Contents: Obverse and edge: letter by an anonymous speaker ( a 'native of the Necropolis') about copper tools and other valuable objects hidden in the house of another (= Ms , obv. 7?). The objects had been missing for some time, and servants of the speaker's family had been seized on account of this. The speaker intends to take the objects to the overseer of the royal treasury, and have the servants released. Reverse: beginning of a wisdom text similar to the 'Prohibitions' (see Remarks).

Terminology: sS (obv. 11); ky Dd (obv. 9)

Names/Titles: an. ( pA im.y-r pr-HD n Pr-aA anx wDA snb ; obv. 9, 15); an. ( pA idn.w AT.w n tA iwy.t mH.t.y.t ; obv. 10); an. ( bAk.w ; obv. 10, 13, edge 1); an. ( Pr-aA anx wDA snb ; king; obv. 9, 11, 13); an. ( ms-2r ; obv. 14); an. ( pA Hr.y-kA.t ; obv. 11); Ms (obv. 7); 1w.t-kA-PtH (geo.; obv. 1); pA 2r (geo.; obv. 11); Gb.t.y.w (geo.; obv. 6)

Remarks: Dates attributed: dating to Ramesses II or Merenptah as suggested by Winand, RdÉ 46 (1995), 196-197. Content: for the Prohibitions, see Hagen, JEA 91 (2005), 125-164.

Record last updated 2016-08-09

	O. BM EA 05631 obverse
Other nos.:	HO 88 obverse

Description:	Limestone, 17.5 x 35.5 cm. Black ink, obverse 15 lines, edge (at top left of obverse) 3 lines, reverse 2 lines. Damaged: beginnings of obv. 1-12, edge 1-3 and rev. 1 lost; ends of obv. 6 and 10 lost.
Classification:	account - letter
Keywords:	arrival - copper - gold - house - jewelry - Necropolis - pig - place - plaster - seal - servant - silver - stall - tools - vessel - work
Provenance:	No indication.
Publication:	Demarée, Ramesside Ostraca , 17, pl. 19-20 (description, photographs, transcription); Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 48-49 , no. 22 (translation, commentary) ; Birch, Inscriptions in the Hieratic and Demotic Character , pl. X VII I (facsimile); Černý-Gardiner, Hieratic Ostraca , 24 (description) , pl. LXXXVIII ( description, facsimile, transcription) ; Erman, ZÄS 42 (1905), 102-106 (transcription, translation, commentary); Vernus, in: La Cachette de Karnak , 7-11 (transcription, transliteration, translation and commentary of obv. 3-9); Wente, Letters , 146, no. 196 (translation)
Dates mentioned:	-
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 19 (Wente), Dyn. 19 or Dyn. 20 (Demarée), Ramesses II or Merenptah (Vernus); see Remarks
Contents:	Obverse and edge: letter by an anonymous speaker ( a 'native of the Necropolis') about copper tools and other valuable objects hidden in the house of another (= Ms , obv. 7?). The objects had been missing for some time, and servants of the speaker's family had been seized on account of this. The speaker intends to take the objects to the overseer of the royal treasury, and have the servants released. Reverse: beginning of a wisdom text similar to the 'Prohibitions' (see Remarks).
Terminology:	sS (obv. 11); ky Dd (obv. 9)
Names/Titles:	an. ( pA im.y-r pr-HD n Pr-aA anx wDA snb ; obv. 9, 15); an. ( pA idn.w AT.w n tA iwy.t mH.t.y.t ; obv. 10); an. ( bAk.w ; obv. 10, 13, edge 1); an. ( Pr-aA anx wDA snb ; king; obv. 9, 11, 13); an. ( ms-2r ; obv. 14); an. ( pA Hr.y-kA.t ; obv. 11); Ms (obv. 7); 1w.t-kA-PtH (geo.; obv. 1); pA 2r (geo.; obv. 11); Gb.t.y.w (geo.; obv. 6)
Remarks:	Dates attributed: dating to Ramesses II or Merenptah as suggested by Winand, RdÉ 46 (1995), 196-197. Content: for the Prohibitions, see Hagen, JEA 91 (2005), 125-164.