O. Cairo CG 25505 | |
Other nos.: | O. Cairo JE 50332; O. Cairo SR 01436 |
Description: | Limestone, 9 x 7 cms. Damaged (two pieces). Two sides. Obverse: 12 lines in black ink, reverse: 8 lines in black ink. The right edge of obverse has broken off causing loss of writing; of l. 11-12 only traces remain. Lines on reverse are correspondingly damaged at their endings. Correction by the scribe in obverse, 3; strike-through by scribe in obverse, 9. |
Classification: | journal : absence - labour - name |
Keywords: | document (?) - illness - inactivity - offering - painting (?) - woodwork (?) - working (?) |
Provenance: | Valley of Kings; excavations Th. Davis; see Remarks |
Publication: | Černý, Ostraca Caire , 3 (description), 4* (transcription), pl. IV (photograph) ; Collier, Dating Late XIXth Dynasty Ostraca , 112-113, 155 (description, commentary) ; Helck, Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka , 114 (outline of content) ; Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions IV, 233-234 (transcription) |
Dates mentioned: | [...] pr.t sw 8 (obv. 9); III pr.t sw 12 (rev. 6) |
Dates attributed: | D yn. 19 (Černý) ; Amenmesse (Kitchen) ; year 3 Amenmesse (?) (Helck); late Seti II - Siptah (Collier) |
Contents: | List of absentees, in some cases due to illness; whereabouts of other workmen noted down. |
Terminology: | wsf (obv. 2, 2, 3, 9 (strike-through), rev. 7); bAk (rev. 8); m a=f (obv. 10); mr (rev. 2, 3); dmD (obv. ~3#, rev. 3, 6); dmD s ? Xr=f (obv. 3) |
Names/Titles: | Bw-on.tw=f (obv. 8); PA-nb (obverse, ~10#, rev. ~1#); Nb-nfr sA Pn-nbw (obv. 7); Nx (obv. 3, 10); Nxt-sw (obv. 2, 10); Ra-ms (obv. 7); Ra-Htp (obv. 6); Rt (obv. 2); 1r-m-wiA (obv. 1, 4); 1r-nfr (obv. 9 (crossed out by scribe)); 1y-nfr sA 7iA (rev. ~4#, ~7#); 2Am (rev. 2); 4A-WAD.t (obv. 1); OH (obv. 5); Ks (obv. 6); 6A-wr.t (deity; obv. ~4#, ~5#, [6], ~8#) |
Remarks: | Provenance: see Reeves, Valley of the Kings , 292-321, with figs. 96-97 on p. 300 and 302, showing some of the site designations used by Davis. |