O. DeM 00789
Other nos.: O. IFAO 01739
  
Description: Pottery sherd, orange with yellow-grey slip, 9.5 x 9.5 cm. Inscribed on two sides in black ink, obverse 6 lines, reverse 5 lines. Top obverse = top reverse. Damaged: A small chip lost at the end of obverse 1, ends of obverse 4-5 lost, only a few signs remain of obverse 6, middle of obverse 2, 4 effaced, beginning of obvese 5 effaced, beginning of reverse 4 lost, only a trace remains of reverse 5.
Classification: letter
Keywords: bread - document - fish - meat - message ( see Remarks )
Provenance: Qurnet Murai North, 13-01-1951, mark: GMN 13.1.51
Publication: Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh VIII, 7, 61, 160 (photographs, facsimile, transcription, transliteration, translation, commentary)
Dates mentioned: -
Dates attributed: Dyn. 20, Ramesses III (end of reign), Ramesses IV, or Ramesses V (Grandet ; see Remarks )
Contents: A letter from an anonymous author to an anonymous recipient request ing that Mry-4xm.t answer a letter (see Remarks) , and that fish, meat and bread be delivered .
Terminology: -
Names/Titles: Mr-Iwn.w (obv. 3-~4# - cf. Mr-Iwn.t ); Mry-4xm.t (obv. ~1#-2)
Remarks: Keywords, Contents: instead of od (obv. 1) and StA.y.t (obv. 2) as suggested by the editor (and followed by Cooney, JARCE 47 (2011), 9), read xsf "to answer" and Sa.t "letter" (R.J. Demarée) . Date attributed: perhaps rather Dyn. 19 in view of name Mr-Iwn.w and palaeography.

Record last updated 2012-11-13


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