O. DeM 00127
Other nos.: O. IFAO 00188
  
Description: Grey pottery, 10 x 8 cm. Black ink, obverse 6 lines (1 and 2 erased by scribe), reverse 4 lines, top obverse = bottom reverse. Complete.
Classification: account - letter : delivery
Keywords: cakes - feast - incense - offering
Provenance: Deir el-Medina, Kom de decombres au sud du village (according to Clere MSS.), 27-01-1930; mark: 27.1.30 KS
Publication: Černý, Ostraca Deir El Medineh II, 4, pl. 8 (description, transcription); Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 97 and 98, no. 67 (translation, commentary); Helck, Materialien IV, (661) (translation obv. 3 - rev. 2); Kitchen, Pharaoh Triumphant , 199 (translation); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions III, 557 (transcription); McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt , 97, no. 68.A (translation, commentary); Wente, Letters , 139, no. 172 (translation)
Dates mentioned: - (but see Hb in.t ; rev. 2)
Dates attributed: Dyn. 20 (Černý); Dyn. 19, Ramesses II (Kitchen, Wente)
Contents: About a delivery of cakes and incense to the addressee through the policeman PA-sr , on the occasion of the Feast of the Valley.
Terminology: wHm (obv. 6); r nty (obv. 3)
Names/Titles: Imn (deity; rev. 3); PA-sr (mDAy ; obv. 3)
Remarks: Obv. 1 and 2: erased lines contain vertical strokes (numbers?) and sign V 19 (grain measure?).

Record last updated 2011-10-18


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