O. DeM 00049
Other nos.: O. IFAO 00407
  
Description: Limestone , 7.5 x 22.5 cms. Complete (two pieces). Obverse: 4 lines in black ink. Reverse: 2 lines in black ink. Top obverse = bottom reverse. Correction by the scribe in obverse l. 3.
Classification: account : payment
Keywords: basketry - coffin - mat - metalwork - painting - payment - stone-work - textile - vegetables - woodwork - work
Provenance: Deir el-Medina, Puits no. 1069 (according to Clere MSS.); mark: Ani 2/25/1/26 / Ani 5/28/1/26 (25-01-1926 and 28-01-1926); see Remarks
Publication: Černý, Ostraca Deir El Medineh [I] , 14 (description), pl. 42-42 A (facsimile, transcription); Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 81 no. 45 (translation, commentary); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions III, 554 (transcription; see Remarks); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VII, 195 (transcription)
Dates mentioned: -
Dates attributed: E nd dynasty 19 - beginning dynasty 20 (Černý) ; Ramesses II ( Kitchen)
Contents: Obverse: payments to the draughtsman MAA.n=i-nxt=f for painting cloth and coffin; reverse: the draughtsman Ra-Htp will paint a coffin in return for items he has already received, mention of bAk.w Xrt.y (the work of a stonemason).
Terminology: ir n ( obv. 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4); bAk.w (in bAk.w Xr.t.y ; rev. 1 ); m a NN ( rev. 1); rdy.t n NN r tA mtn ( obv. 1); rdy.t n=f r DbA ... ( obv. 3)
Names/Titles: MAA.n=i-nxt=f (sS-od ; obv. 1 - written MAA-nxt=f ); Ra-Htp (sS-od ; rev. 1)
Remarks: Provenance: O. DeM 00 049- 00 052 were found together with some literary ostraca in the tomb of Ani (Puits 1069). Publication: Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions III, 554, skipped a line in the transcription; it was redone in Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VII, 195. Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 81, does not translate mtn in obverse, 1.

Record last updated 2006-07-26


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