O. DeM 00324 | |
Other nos.: | O. IFAO 00817 |
Description: | Yellow-grey pottery, 10 x 13.5 cm. Black ink, obverse 6 lines, reverse 4 lines, top obverse = top reverse. Complete but all lines quite pale, reverse 3 and 4 erased in antiquity. |
Classification: | letter |
Keywords: | basketry - boat - bread - junior - message - river-bank - vegetables |
Provenance: | no indication |
Publication: | Černý, Ostraca Deir El Medineh IV, 22, pl. 27 (description, transcription); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions III, 538 and 539 (transcription); Wente, Letters , 156, no. 230 (translation) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | second half Dyn. 19 (Černý); Ramesses II (Kitchen, Wente) |
Contents: | A man writes to his daughter requesting regular deliveries of loaves to the river-bank for some young men. He also asks for baskets of bread and vegetables to be brought, which are to be transported by boat. |
Terminology: | NN n NN m anx wDA snb Hna Dd r nty (obv. ~1#); hAb (obv. 8); ky Dd (obv. 5) |
Names/Titles: | an-xa (obv. 1); Nbw-m-SA=s (sA.t of an-xa ; f.; obv. 1) |
Remarks: | - |