O. DeM 00681
Other nos.:	O. IFAO 01568; O. IFAO inv. no. SA 08928
Description:	Grey yellow pottery sherd, 9 x 10.5 cm. Black ink, two sides: obverse 6 lines, reverse 4 lines; top obverse = bottom reverse. Damaged; broken off at left edge of obverse, ends of obverse lines 1-5 missing, obverse lines 1, 3 and 5 partly effaced.
Classification:	letter
Keywords:	basketry - woodwork
Provenance:	Deir el-Medina, Grand Puits, 17-12-1950
Publication:	Černý, Ostraca Deir El Medineh [VII], 13, pl. 21 (description, transcription); Wente, Letters , 155-156 no. 226 (translation)
Dates mentioned:	-
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 19, Ramesses II ? (Wente); see Remarks
Contents:	A message from scribe 2ay to 'his brother' (sn=f ) PA-Hy asking to send him a basket and to give some items to other named people.
Terminology:	NN Hr nD xr.t n NN m anx wDA snb Hna Dd (obv. ~1#)
Names/Titles:	Inh (f.; obv. 3); PA-Hy ( sn of 2ay ; obv. ~1#?); 1r (rev. 4); 2ay ( sS ; obv. 1; see Remarks) Incomplete: Pn-an [...] (obv. 3)
Remarks:	Date attributed and Names, Titles: for the scribe 2ay see Davies, Who's W ho at Deir el-Medina , 154.