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. |