O. DeM 00125 | |
Other nos.: | O. IFAO 00655 |
Description: | Yellow pottery handle, 4 x 9 cm. Black ink, one side, 3 lines. Complete. |
Classification: | letter |
Keywords: | jewelry - payment - textile |
Provenance: | Bruyere excavations 1933-1934 |
Publication: | Černý, Ostraca Deir El Medineh II, 4, pls. 6 and 6A (description, transcription, photograph); Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 96, no. 65 (translation, commentary); David, Legal Register , 237 (transliteration, translation); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions III, 543 (transcription); McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt , 75, no. 46.B (translation, commentary); Wente, Letters , 156, no. 229 (translation) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | Dyn. 19 or Dyn. 20 (Černý); Ramesses II ( David, Kitchen, Wente) |
Contents: | Anonymous female sender urges the addressee, a woman named 1nw.t-wDb.w , to procure a tunic in exchange for a ring, and to deliver it to the sender within 10 days(?). |
Terminology: | ky Dd n NN (1) |
Names/Titles: | 1nw.t-wDb.w (f.; 1) |
Remarks: | - |