O. BTdK 611
Other nos.: O KV 18/3.551 + O. KV 18/3.556 + O. KV 18/3.unnumbered
  
Description: Pottery (vase fragment, eight fragments joined), 13.3 x 18.1 x 1.1 cm. Inscribed on two sides, on obverse 3 lines earlier writing in black ink and two columns of each 8 lines later writing in red ink, on reverse two columns of each 6 lines in red ink. Top obverse = bottom reverse. Damaged: broken off at top, left edge and bottom; of the earlier writing on obverse only traces subsist and almost all lines of the later writing are partially effaced. Palimpsest.
Classification: letter - list : name
Keywords: illness
Provenance: Valley of Kings, workmen's huts near KV 18. Findspot: B.AH-W.Hütte30. (see Remarks)
Publication: Dorn, Arbeiterhütten , 388-389 (description, transliteration, translation and commentary), pls. 487-489 (photographs, facsimiles and transcriptions).
Dates mentioned: -
Dates attributed: Mid dyn. 20 (Dorn)
Contents: The earlier writing on obverse contained a letter. The later writing on both obverse and reverse contains lists of names (some mentioned as 'ill').
Terminology: mr (obv. II 1; rev. I 3)
Names/Titles: an. ( pAy=k nb ; obv., earlier writing 3); Imn-PA-1apy (obv. II 3; written Imn-1apy ); Imn-m-Ip.t (obv. I 3); Wn-nfr (obv. I 5); PA-nxt (rev. II 1 ?); On (rev. II 2); On sA Rt (rev. I 5); 6A-Sri (obv. II 2). Incomplete: [...] ( sA Imn-m-Ip.t ; obv. I 4); [...] ( sS ; obv. I 1); I [...] ( sS ; obv. I 2); [...]- nb- [...] (rev. II 6); 1r-[...] (obv. II 7); 1r-[...] (rev. I 4)
Remarks: Provenance: for the findspot identification see Dorn, Arbeiterhütten , 17-19.

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