O. DeM 00251 | |
Other nos.: | O. IFAO 00792 |
Description: | Green-grey pottery, 7 x 8 cm. Black ink, one side, 4 lines. Complete. |
Classification: | letter |
Keywords: | divine manifestation - statue(? see Remarks) - theft - wr.t (? see Remarks) |
Provenance: | no indication |
Publication: | Černý, Ostraca Deir El Medineh IV, 3, pl. 3 (description, transcription); Allam, Hieratische Ostraka und Papyri , 112, no. 87 (translation); Borghouts, in: Gleanings from Deir el-Medina , 15-19 (translation, commentary); I.E.S. Edwards, Oracular Amuletic Decrees of the Late New Kingdom (Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum, Fourth Series), London 1960, vol. I (Text), xxii, note 4 (translation lines 1-3); Green, in: Studies Fairman , 108 and 113, no. C2 (transliteration lines 1-3; transcription lines 3 and 4; translation); McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt , 102, no. 74 (translation, commentary); Wente, Letters , 141, no. 182 (translation) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | Dyn. 19 or Dyn. 20 (Černý, Wente) |
Contents: | The sender asks for a wr.t (or 6A-wr.t ; a statue or amulet? see Remarks) to be made. The previous one made by the addressee has been stolen, and the sender fears (or has already experienced) divine wrath. |
Terminology: | - |
Names/Titles: | 4tX (deity; 4); 6A-wr.t (deity; f.; 1; or read wr.t ? see Remarks) |
Remarks: | Keywords/Contents/Names, Titles: for wr.t or 6A-wr.t in line 1, see Borghouts, in: Gleanings from Deir el-Medina , 15-19, and the references given there . |