O. Cairo CG 25644 | |
Other nos.: | O. Cairo JE 96041; O. Cairo SR 01172 |
Description: | Limestone, 13 x 15 cms. Complete. Two sides. Obverse: 9 lines; reverse: 6 lines. Owing to water damage the background is grimy and the writing indistinct. Black ink. Top obverse = bottom reverse. |
Classification: | letter |
Keywords: | basketry - feast - grain - house - mat - Necropolis - servant - Valley (?) - vegetables |
Provenance: | Valley of Kings; Davis/Ayrton excavations 1905-1906; mark: Ep (80 metres northeast of KV 29) and (in pencil) Zam (as Z ? east of KV 13 ?); see Reeves, Valley of the Kings , 298. |
Publication: | Černý, Ostraca Caire , 47 (description), 68* (transcription), pl. LXIII (facsimile); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions IV, 330-331 (transcription); Wente, Letters , 143-144, no. 190 (translation) |
Dates mentioned: | III Smw sw 23 (rev. 2) |
Dates attributed: | D yn. 20 (Černý) ; dyn. 19, Seti II (Kitchen) |
Contents: | Letter about domestic affairs, viz. the sending of grain and basketry. |
Terminology: | r nty (obv. 9) Incomplete: [...] NN [...] NN r nty (obv. 1-2) |
Names/Titles: | an. (nA Hm.w.t ; obv. 7; spelled without .t ); Imn (deity); in Hb Imn ; obv. 4); PtH-Sd (obv. ~2#); PtH-Sd (rmT-is.t ; rev. 4); Nfr-Htp (obv. ~1#); 2nsw-m-Hb (mDAy ; rev. 1-2); PA-In.t (feast; obv. 4; or: the Valley (?)) |
Remarks: | - |