The Deir el-Medina Database

O. DeM 00908

Other nos.: O. IFAO 01786

Description: Limestone, 7.5 x 5.5 cm. Inscribed on two sides in black ink, obverse 7 lines, reverse text (A) 6 lines and text (B) 3 lines written upside down with respect to text (A). Top obverse = bottom reverse, text (A). Damaged: beginnings and ends of obverse 1-7 lost, only traces re ma in of reverse (A) 1, beginnings and ends of reverse (A) 2-6, (B) 1-2 lost, only traces remain of reverse (B) 3.

Classification: journal : absence - name

Keywords: hut - illness - menstruation - plants - statue - temple - working

Provenance: Deir el-Medina, Kom du Grand Puits, 25-03-1950 (or 19-03-1950?) ; mark: KGP 19 3 50.

Publication: Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 3, 81-84, 328-329 (photographs, facsimile, transcription, description, transliteration, translation, commentary); Grandet, in: Deir el-Médineh et la Vallée des Rois , 213-214, 226 (transliteration, translation, commentary, facsimile, transcription)

Dates mentioned: [x +] I Smw sw 25 (obv. ~4#?)

Dates attributed: End dyn. 19, year 1 Siptah(?) (Grandet ; see Remarks).

Contents: Journal of workmen's absence s; reasons for absence include the production of a statue of the vizier, and a woman's menstruation . Mention is also made of the temple of Renenutet, and of King Amenhotep I.

Terminology: aHa n NN (obv. ~1-2#?, ~6#, rev. A ~6#); aHa n NN m a Hr.y=f (obv. ~4#, ~5#, rev. A ~2#-3); mr (obv. 2); m a Hr.y=f (obv. ~3#?, 6, rev. A 4, 5 , ~5# )

Names/Titles: an. ( Hm.t ; f.; rev. A ~6#?); an. ( Hr.y=f ; obv. [3], [4], [5], 6, rev. A 3, 4, 5, ~5#); an. ( TAty ; statue of; obv. 3, ~7#); Ipwy (obv. 3, 4, Rev. A ~2#); Imn-m-In.t (obv. ~2#); nswt 9sr-kA-Ra (king; rev. B ~2#); Rnnw.t (deity, f.; temple of; obv. 1, rev. B ~1#); 2Am.y (obv. ~6#?, rev. A ~6#?); 2a-m-sbA.w (obv. ~2#, 6, rev. A 5); 4A-WAD.t (obv. 5); Incomplete: [...] sA Ra-ms (rev. A 1; probably Ks sA Ra-ms ; see Remarks)

Remarks: Names, Titles: reconstruction Ks sA Ra-ms (rev. A ~1#) by Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 82, 84. Date attributed: see Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 3, 83-84 .

Record last updated 2007-02-12

	O. DeM 00908
Other nos.:	O. IFAO 01786

Description:	Limestone, 7.5 x 5.5 cm. Inscribed on two sides in black ink, obverse 7 lines, reverse text (A) 6 lines and text (B) 3 lines written upside down with respect to text (A). Top obverse = bottom reverse, text (A). Damaged: beginnings and ends of obverse 1-7 lost, only traces re ma in of reverse (A) 1, beginnings and ends of reverse (A) 2-6, (B) 1-2 lost, only traces remain of reverse (B) 3.
Classification:	journal : absence - name
Keywords:	hut - illness - menstruation - plants - statue - temple - working
Provenance:	Deir el-Medina, Kom du Grand Puits, 25-03-1950 (or 19-03-1950?) ; mark: KGP 19 3 50.
Publication:	Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 3, 81-84, 328-329 (photographs, facsimile, transcription, description, transliteration, translation, commentary); Grandet, in: Deir el-Médineh et la Vallée des Rois , 213-214, 226 (transliteration, translation, commentary, facsimile, transcription)
Dates mentioned:	[x +] I Smw sw 25 (obv. ~4#?)
Dates attributed:	End dyn. 19, year 1 Siptah(?) (Grandet ; see Remarks).
Contents:	Journal of workmen's absence s; reasons for absence include the production of a statue of the vizier, and a woman's menstruation . Mention is also made of the temple of Renenutet, and of King Amenhotep I.
Terminology:	aHa n NN (obv. ~1-2#?, ~6#, rev. A ~6#); aHa n NN m a Hr.y=f (obv. ~4#, ~5#, rev. A ~2#-3); mr (obv. 2); m a Hr.y=f (obv. ~3#?, 6, rev. A 4, 5 , ~5# )
Names/Titles:	an. ( Hm.t ; f.; rev. A ~6#?); an. ( Hr.y=f ; obv. [3], [4], [5], 6, rev. A 3, 4, 5, ~5#); an. ( TAty ; statue of; obv. 3, ~7#); Ipwy (obv. 3, 4, Rev. A ~2#); Imn-m-In.t (obv. ~2#); nswt 9sr-kA-Ra (king; rev. B ~2#); Rnnw.t (deity, f.; temple of; obv. 1, rev. B ~1#); 2Am.y (obv. ~6#?, rev. A ~6#?); 2a-m-sbA.w (obv. ~2#, 6, rev. A 5); 4A-WAD.t (obv. 5); Incomplete: [...] sA Ra-ms (rev. A 1; probably Ks sA Ra-ms ; see Remarks)
Remarks:	Names, Titles: reconstruction Ks sA Ra-ms (rev. A ~1#) by Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 82, 84. Date attributed: see Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh IX, 3, 83-84 .