The Deir el-Medina Database

O. DeM 00894

Other nos.: O. IFAO 01801; O. IFAO inv. no. SA 00402 + O. IFAO inv. no. SA 04302

Description: Thick pottery sherd with yellow slip, 11.5 x 7 cm, two joining fragments. Inscribed on one side (convex) in black ink, 4 lines. Damaged: beginnings of lines 3-4 lost, ends of lines 1-4 lost; see Remarks.

Classification: journal : delivery(?) - labour

Keywords: fish(?) - gang - inactivity

Provenance: Deir el-Medina, Grand Puits, 13-03-1950 (O. IFAO inv. no. SA 00420) and 15-04-1949 (O. IFAO inv. no. SA 04302).

Publication: Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 3, 67-68, 305 (photograph, facsimile, transcription, description, transliteration, translation, commentary).

Dates mentioned: rnp.t-sp 2 [...] (1); II Ax.t sw 25 (2); [...] Ax.t sw 26 (3; possibly II Ax.t sw 26; see Remarks); [...] Ax.t sw 1 (4?)

Dates attributed: Dyn. 20, year 2 Ramesses IV, or year 2 Ramesses V ( ? ) (Grandet).

Contents: A journal recording absence from work, and possibly a delive ry of fish.

Terminology: wsf tA is.t (~3#)

Names/Titles: Wsr-HA.t-nxt ( wHa ; ~4#) Incomplete: Imn- [...] (2)

Remarks: Description: O. DeM 0 0 894 may be a fragment belonging to the text written on O. DeM 0 0 895. However, O. DeM 0 0 894 and O. DeM 0 0 895 do not join. Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 68. Date(s) mentioned: r estoration II Ax.t sw [...] (3) by Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 67.

Record last updated 2007-02-05

	O. DeM 00894
Other nos.:	O. IFAO 01801; O. IFAO inv. no. SA 00402 + O. IFAO inv. no. SA 04302

Description:	Thick pottery sherd with yellow slip, 11.5 x 7 cm, two joining fragments. Inscribed on one side (convex) in black ink, 4 lines. Damaged: beginnings of lines 3-4 lost, ends of lines 1-4 lost; see Remarks.
Classification:	journal : delivery(?) - labour
Keywords:	fish(?) - gang - inactivity
Provenance:	Deir el-Medina, Grand Puits, 13-03-1950 (O. IFAO inv. no. SA 00420) and 15-04-1949 (O. IFAO inv. no. SA 04302).
Publication:	Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 3, 67-68, 305 (photograph, facsimile, transcription, description, transliteration, translation, commentary).
Dates mentioned:	rnp.t-sp 2 [...] (1); II Ax.t sw 25 (2); [...] Ax.t sw 26 (3; possibly II Ax.t sw 26; see Remarks); [...] Ax.t sw 1 (4?)
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 20, year 2 Ramesses IV, or year 2 Ramesses V ( ? ) (Grandet).
Contents:	A journal recording absence from work, and possibly a delive ry of fish.
Terminology:	wsf tA is.t (~3#)
Names/Titles:	Wsr-HA.t-nxt ( wHa ; ~4#) Incomplete: Imn- [...] (2)
Remarks:	Description: O. DeM 0 0 894 may be a fragment belonging to the text written on O. DeM 0 0 895. However, O. DeM 0 0 894 and O. DeM 0 0 895 do not join. Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 68. Date(s) mentioned: r estoration II Ax.t sw [...] (3) by Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 67.