O. BTdK 690
Other nos.: O. KV 18/6.826A
  
Description: Limestone, 19 x 12.8 x 3.2 cm. Inscribed on two sides: on obverse 3 lines and on reverse 10 lines in black ink. Top obverse = left edge reverse. Damaged: broken off on all sides; ends of all three lines on obverse missing; on reverse beginnings and ends of lines 1-7 and ends of lines 9-10 missing. Some very small fragments numbered A-E found together with this ostracon and O. BTdK 709 could belong here.
Classification: letter - account : payment
Keywords: donkey - goat - grain - oil - payment - sandals - textile
Provenance: Valley of Kings, workmen's huts near KV 18. Findspot: E.SH1d.A3 (see Remarks)
Publication: Dorn, Arbeiterhütten , 426-427 (description, transliteration, translation and commentary), 438 (description of fragments A-E), pls. 596-598 (photograph, facsimile and transcription of obverse), 567-569 (photograph, facsimile and transcription of reverse); 595 (photographs and facsimiles of fragments A-E)
Dates mentioned: -
Dates attributed: Mid dyn. 20 (Dorn)
Contents: On obverse probably some lines of a letter. On reverse a record of a business transaction, involving a garment and some commodities given as payment, i.a. a donkey.
Terminology: Hna Dd r nty (obv. 3)
Names/Titles: an. ( nTr nb nty Htp [...] ; deity; obv. 2); Imn-Ra (deity; obv. 1); PA-Hr.y (rev. 8; 9); Ns-Imn (rev. 2)
Remarks: Provenance: for the findspot identification see Dorn, Arbeiterhütten , 17-19.

Record last updated 2012-08-25


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