The Deir el-Medina Database

O. Cairo CG 25290

Other nos.: O. Cairo SR 12129

Description: Limestone block, largest side 11 x 33 cm. Inscribed on three sides in red ink and black ink, side I: 5 lines; lines 1-4 in red ink, line 5 in black ink and large charackters, side II (to the left of side I) text in black ink; (see Remarks), 3 lines, side III (to the right of side I), 6 lines probably in black ink. Top side I = top side II = top side III. Damaged: middle of side I line 1 effaced, end of side 1 line 4 effaced, middle of side II line 1 effaced, middle of side III lines 3, 5, 6 effaced.

Classification: account - note : event - name - portion

Keywords: arrival - fruit (? see Remarks) - inspecting work - offering - pottery - vessel

Provenance: Valley of Kings.

Publication: Daressy, Ostraca Caire , 73-74, pl. LVIII (photograph of side II, description, transcription of side I 1-5, side III 1-6); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VI, 143 (transcription of side I 1-5); see Remarks; Donker van Heel, in: Village Voices , 20 (translation of side I 1-5, commentary); Helck, Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka, 398 (translation).

Dates mentioned: rnp.t-sp 6 III Smw sw 16 (side I ~1#)

Dates attributed: Dyn. 20, year 6 Ramesses IV (Helck, Kitchen)

Contents: A note of the vizier arriving to inspect work and give offerings, and an account of deliveries of jars and fruit (? see Remarks).

Terminology: ii pw in NN (side I ~2#-3); wa nb (side III 5); wp-st (side III 2); wHm (side III 2, 3)

Names/Titles: MnnA (side III 4); Nfr-rnp.t (im.y-r Niw.t TAty ; side I ~2#) Incomplete: [...] yt Nb.t-WAs.t (f.; deity; side I 4-5)

Remarks: Description: Text on side II is literary according to Černý, Notebook 101.45. Keywords/Content(s): the spelling for the word iSd (fruit) employs Gardiner sign A 24 as its determinative, which makes the reading somewhat uncertain. The context of the word does not, however, allow for it to be read as some form of the verb Sd . Publication: a revised transcription of side I 1-5 and side III 1-6 by Černý, Notebook 101.49. Content(s): for a similar note, cf. O. Cairo CG 25291.

Record last updated 2005-06-01

	O. Cairo CG 25290
Other nos.:	O. Cairo SR 12129

Description:	Limestone block, largest side 11 x 33 cm. Inscribed on three sides in red ink and black ink, side I: 5 lines; lines 1-4 in red ink, line 5 in black ink and large charackters, side II (to the left of side I) text in black ink; (see Remarks), 3 lines, side III (to the right of side I), 6 lines probably in black ink. Top side I = top side II = top side III. Damaged: middle of side I line 1 effaced, end of side 1 line 4 effaced, middle of side II line 1 effaced, middle of side III lines 3, 5, 6 effaced.
Classification:	account - note : event - name - portion
Keywords:	arrival - fruit (? see Remarks) - inspecting work - offering - pottery - vessel
Provenance:	Valley of Kings.
Publication:	Daressy, Ostraca Caire , 73-74, pl. LVIII (photograph of side II, description, transcription of side I 1-5, side III 1-6); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VI, 143 (transcription of side I 1-5); see Remarks; Donker van Heel, in: Village Voices , 20 (translation of side I 1-5, commentary); Helck, Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka, 398 (translation).
Dates mentioned:	rnp.t-sp 6 III Smw sw 16 (side I ~1#)
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 20, year 6 Ramesses IV (Helck, Kitchen)
Contents:	A note of the vizier arriving to inspect work and give offerings, and an account of deliveries of jars and fruit (? see Remarks).
Terminology:	ii pw in NN (side I ~2#-3); wa nb (side III 5); wp-st (side III 2); wHm (side III 2, 3)
Names/Titles:	MnnA (side III 4); Nfr-rnp.t (im.y-r Niw.t TAty ; side I ~2#) Incomplete: [...] yt Nb.t-WAs.t (f.; deity; side I 4-5)
Remarks:	Description: Text on side II is literary according to Černý, Notebook 101.45. Keywords/Content(s): the spelling for the word iSd (fruit) employs Gardiner sign A 24 as its determinative, which makes the reading somewhat uncertain. The context of the word does not, however, allow for it to be read as some form of the verb Sd . Publication: a revised transcription of side I 1-5 and side III 1-6 by Černý, Notebook 101.49. Content(s): for a similar note, cf. O. Cairo CG 25291.