O. DeM 00321 | |
Other nos.: | O. IFAO 00819 |
Description: | Yellow-grey pottery, 8.5 x 12.5 cm, in two fragments. Black ink, obverse 7 lines, reverse 8 lines; lines on reverse at right angles with those on obverse. Complete. |
Classification: | letter |
Keywords: | cakes - complaint - leather - sandals - onb.t - DAr.t (see Remarks) |
Provenance: | no indication |
Publication: | Černý, Ostraca Deir El Medineh IV, 22, pl. 25 (description, transcription); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions III, 544 (transcription); Wente, Letters , 157 and 158, no. 235 (translation) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | end Dyn. 19 (Černý); Ramesses II (Kitchen, Wente) |
Contents: | Letter to Imn-m-wiA ; the sender complains that he has had some hides and other items delivered to the addressee, who was to make a sack for him, but the items have been taken by Imn-m-wiA without any result. The writer also asks for a Xr.w (sole?) for his sandals, and says he has sent 60 cakes to Imn-m-wiA . |
Terminology: | n NN m anx wDA snb Hna Dd (obv. 1) |
Names/Titles: | Imn-m-wiA (obv. 1) |
Remarks: | Keywords: Wente translates DAr(.t) (obv. 4) as 'coloquinthus fruit', but this is doubtful according to R. Germer, Flora des pharaonischen Aegypten (Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut Abteilung Kairo. Sonderschrift 14), Mainz 1985, 127. |