O. DeM 00123 | |
Other nos.: | O. IFAO 00399 |
Description: | Limestone, 5 x 20 cm. Black ink, obverse 2 lines, reverse 2 lines, top obverse = bottom reverse. Complete. |
Classification: | letter |
Keywords: | junior - mat - message - rope - Swy |
Provenance: | mark: P 10/5/2/26; see Remarks |
Publication: | Černý, Ostraca Deir El Medineh II, 3, pls. 6 and 6A (description, transcription, photographs); McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt , 29, no. 1 (translation, commentary); Wente, Letters , 164, no. 263 (translation) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | Dyn. 20 (Černý, Wente) |
Contents: | Obverse: request to the addressee to specify what he wants to receive; reverse: answer to the request on obverse, mentioning two mats. |
Terminology: | hAb (obv. 1; rev. 1) |
Names/Titles: | - |
Remarks: | Description: reverse different hand. Provenance: P refers to excavated pits at Deir el-Medina; in 1926-1927 these pits were nos. 1096-1129 according to Clere MSS. See Bruyere, Rapport sur les fouilles de Deir El Medineh 1927 , pl. I. |