O. DeM 00326
Other nos.: O. IFAO 00816
  
Description: Yellow-red pottery, 13 x 14.5 cm. Black ink, one side, 9 lines. Damaged; beginnings of lines 4-9 and ends of lines 3-9 lost, unknown number of lines lost on top and at bottom.
Classification: letter
Keywords: bread - complaint - illness - mat(?) - message - xA
Provenance: Deir el-Medina; 'Kom de decombres au sud du village' (according to Clere MSS.); mark: KS
Publication: Černý, Ostraca Deir El Medineh IV, 23, pl. 28 (description, transcription); Wente, Letters , 149, no. 205 (translation)
Dates mentioned: -
Dates attributed: end Dyn. 19 or beginning Dyn. 20 (Černý); second half Dyn. 19 (Wente)
Contents: The sender complains about the 'bitter words' (md.w.t mr ) he received from the addressee, which seem to have arisen from the sender's request to send some bread.
Terminology: m anx wDA snb m Hs.w.t (1); hAb (1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5); Hna Dd (1)
Names/Titles: Imn-Ra-nswt-nTr.w (deity; 1); BAk-Mw.t sA 1y (7); PA-sr (7); Gb.t.y.w (geo.; 6)
Remarks: -

Record last updated 2006-07-27


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