The Deir el-Medina Database

O. Berlin P 12398

Other nos.: -

Description: Convex sherd of pottery jar, yellowish outside, brown inside, 23 x 12.5 cm. Inscribed on two sides in black ink(?), obverse 13 lines, reverse 11 lines. Top obverse = bottom reverse. Palimpsest, traces of effaced text still visible on obverse and reverse. Damaged: beginnings of reverse 8, 11 effaced.

Classification: letter : deficit - delivery

Keywords: donkey - house - illness - message - payment - plants - stone utensils - vegetables - wood - woodwork(?) - work(?) - bA.t (?) - Sbt (?)

Provenance: no indication

Publication: Deir el Medine online, URL: http://dem-online.gwi.uni-muenchen.de (description, transcription, transliteration, translation, photograph and commentary); Allam, MDAIK 37 (1981), 9-13, pls. 2-3 (photographs, transcription, translation, commentary); Janssen, Donkeys at Deir el-Medina , 49-50 (summary of contents, commentary); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VII, 194 (transcription); Wente, Letters , 137 no. 168 (translation)

Dates mentioned: -

Dates attributed: Dyn. 19 (Allam (?) ; see Remarks); (mid) Dyn. 19 (Deir el Medine online); Ramesses II (Kitchen, Wente)

Contents: A letter by 2a-bxn.t to his brother, the deputy Bn -nxt =f , concerning the illness of a donkey, and various deliveries.

Terminology: iw (rev. 2); wDA.t (rev. 2); Hna Dd (obv. 4); hAb (rev. 3); Dd.n NN n NN m anx wDA snb m Hs.w.t (obv. 1-2)

Names/Titles: an. ( it of 2a-bxn.t ; rev. 10 ?); Imn-Ra-nswt-nTr.w pAy=k nb nfr (deity; obv. 2-3); Imn-Htp ( sS ; rev. 7) ; Bn-nxt=f ( idn.w ; sn of 2a-bxn.t ; obv. 1-2 - see Remarks); 2a-bxn.t (obv. 1)

Remarks: Date(s) attributed; "Ces indices nous permettent de dater la redaction de la 19e dynastie, plus precisement de l'epoque anterieure aux rois ramessides, a en juger par les apparences (sic)."; Allam, MDAIK 37 (1981), 13. Names, Titles: Allam, MDAIK 37 (1981), 9 and 10, note 5 , read "An-nakhtou" (i.e. An-nxt.w ?) in obv. 2, but see Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VII, 194 , note 2a .

Record last updated 2010-10-18

	O. Berlin P 12398
Other nos.:	-

Description:	Convex sherd of pottery jar, yellowish outside, brown inside, 23 x 12.5 cm. Inscribed on two sides in black ink(?), obverse 13 lines, reverse 11 lines. Top obverse = bottom reverse. Palimpsest, traces of effaced text still visible on obverse and reverse. Damaged: beginnings of reverse 8, 11 effaced.
Classification:	letter : deficit - delivery
Keywords:	donkey - house - illness - message - payment - plants - stone utensils - vegetables - wood - woodwork(?) - work(?) - bA.t (?) - Sbt (?)
Provenance:	no indication
Publication:	Deir el Medine online, URL: http://dem-online.gwi.uni-muenchen.de (description, transcription, transliteration, translation, photograph and commentary); Allam, MDAIK 37 (1981), 9-13, pls. 2-3 (photographs, transcription, translation, commentary); Janssen, Donkeys at Deir el-Medina , 49-50 (summary of contents, commentary); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VII, 194 (transcription); Wente, Letters , 137 no. 168 (translation)
Dates mentioned:	-
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 19 (Allam (?) ; see Remarks); (mid) Dyn. 19 (Deir el Medine online); Ramesses II (Kitchen, Wente)
Contents:	A letter by 2a-bxn.t to his brother, the deputy Bn -nxt =f , concerning the illness of a donkey, and various deliveries.
Terminology:	iw (rev. 2); wDA.t (rev. 2); Hna Dd (obv. 4); hAb (rev. 3); Dd.n NN n NN m anx wDA snb m Hs.w.t (obv. 1-2)
Names/Titles:	an. ( it of 2a-bxn.t ; rev. 10 ?); Imn-Ra-nswt-nTr.w pAy=k nb nfr (deity; obv. 2-3); Imn-Htp ( sS ; rev. 7) ; Bn-nxt=f ( idn.w ; sn of 2a-bxn.t ; obv. 1-2 - see Remarks); 2a-bxn.t (obv. 1)
Remarks:	Date(s) attributed; "Ces indices nous permettent de dater la redaction de la 19e dynastie, plus precisement de l'epoque anterieure aux rois ramessides, a en juger par les apparences (sic)."; Allam, MDAIK 37 (1981), 13. Names, Titles: Allam, MDAIK 37 (1981), 9 and 10, note 5 , read "An-nakhtou" (i.e. An-nxt.w ?) in obv. 2, but see Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VII, 194 , note 2a .