The Deir el-Medina Database

O. DeM 00890

Other nos.: O. IFAO 01834; O. IFAO inv. no. SA 12753

Description: Limestone, 10 x 14 cm. Inscribed on two sides in black ink, obverse 7 lines, reverse 6 lines. Top obverse = top reverse. Damaged: beginnings of obverse 1-4, 7 lost, ends of obverse 1-3, 7 lost, middle of obverse 5 effaced, only traces and a few signs remain of reverse 1-6.

Classification: note - report: event

Keywords: carrying torch - gang - temple - wages

Provenance: no indication

Publication: Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 3, 64-65, 300-302 (photographs, facsimile, transcription of obverse and reverse 3, description, transliteration, translation, commentary); Grandet, in: Deir el-Médineh et la Vallée des Rois , 218-219, 231 (transliteration, translation, commentary, facsimile, transcription)

Dates mentioned: [...] sw 6 [ +x ] (obv. 1?; see Remarks)

Dates attributed: Dyn. 20, year 29 Ramesses III (Grandet).

Contents: A note on the gang carrying torches and protesting at the temple of Medinet Habu to the s em - priest Wsr-HA.t and the m ayor of Thebes PA-sr because their wages ha ve been taken away. See Remarks.

Terminology: hrw n fA mhd ir.n tA is.t (obv. ~1 -2 #); smi (obv. 7)

Names/Titles: Wsr-HA.t ( sm n tA Hw.t Wsr-mAa.t-Ra Mry-Im n anx wDA snb ; obv. ~3- 4 #, obv. ~5# - only sm ); PA-sr ( HA.t.y-a n Niw.t ; obv. 4; rev. ~2# - title only)

Remarks: Date(s) mentioned , Contents : possibly relating the same events as O. Varille 39 (obv. 10-11), hence the restoration II pr.t sw 16 is suggested for obv. 1 by Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 64. The transcrip tion erroneously has II pr.t sw 6 (Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 301 ) .

Record last updated 2007-02-01

	O. DeM 00890
Other nos.:	O. IFAO 01834; O. IFAO inv. no. SA 12753

Description:	Limestone, 10 x 14 cm. Inscribed on two sides in black ink, obverse 7 lines, reverse 6 lines. Top obverse = top reverse. Damaged: beginnings of obverse 1-4, 7 lost, ends of obverse 1-3, 7 lost, middle of obverse 5 effaced, only traces and a few signs remain of reverse 1-6.
Classification:	note - report: event
Keywords:	carrying torch - gang - temple - wages
Provenance:	no indication
Publication:	Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 3, 64-65, 300-302 (photographs, facsimile, transcription of obverse and reverse 3, description, transliteration, translation, commentary); Grandet, in: Deir el-Médineh et la Vallée des Rois , 218-219, 231 (transliteration, translation, commentary, facsimile, transcription)
Dates mentioned:	[...] sw 6 [ +x ] (obv. 1?; see Remarks)
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 20, year 29 Ramesses III (Grandet).
Contents:	A note on the gang carrying torches and protesting at the temple of Medinet Habu to the s em - priest Wsr-HA.t and the m ayor of Thebes PA-sr because their wages ha ve been taken away. See Remarks.
Terminology:	hrw n fA mhd ir.n tA is.t (obv. ~1 -2 #); smi (obv. 7)
Names/Titles:	Wsr-HA.t ( sm n tA Hw.t Wsr-mAa.t-Ra Mry-Im n anx wDA snb ; obv. ~3- 4 #, obv. ~5# - only sm ); PA-sr ( HA.t.y-a n Niw.t ; obv. 4; rev. ~2# - title only)
Remarks:	Date(s) mentioned , Contents : possibly relating the same events as O. Varille 39 (obv. 10-11), hence the restoration II pr.t sw 16 is suggested for obv. 1 by Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 64. The transcrip tion erroneously has II pr.t sw 6 (Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 301 ) .