O. Cairo CG 25766 | |
Other nos.: | O. Cairo JE 96206; O. Cairo SR 01368 |
Description: | Limestone, 15 x 20.5 cm. Black ink, one side, 5 lines. Correction by scribe in line 4. Complete. |
Classification: | (see Remarks) |
Keywords: | - |
Provenance: | Valley of Kings, KV 47 (Siptah); Davis/Ayrton excavations 1905-1906; mark: S Tb. 12. Davis. 1905-6; see Reeves, Valley of the Kings , 298 and 303. |
Publication: | Černý, Ostraca Caire , 82, 95*, pl. XCVIII (description, transcription, photograph); Černý, ZAS 93 (1966), 36-38 (translation, commentary); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions IV, 286 (transcription); Posener, in Fragen an die altaegyptische Literatur , 385-397 (translation, commentary) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | end Dyn. 19 (Černý); Seti II (Kitchen) |
Contents: | Prayer to Amonrasonter by the royal butler BAy , who describes himself as "a stranger/visitor (ori ) from the north", with the wish to see Thebes. |
Terminology: | mi n=i (2); Dd=f (1-2) |
Names/Titles: | Imn (deity; 2); Imn-Ra-nswt-nTr.w (deity; 2); BAy (sS-nswt wbA-nswt ; 1); Niw.t (4); nswt 4tX.y Mr.n-PtH (king; ~1#) |
Remarks: | Classification: not an administrative document, but a votive or literary text; cf. O. Cairo CG 25764 (same provenance). |