O. DeM 10244
Other nos.: O. IFAO 10041; O. IFAO inv. no. SA 02554; O. Gardiner AG 077
  
Description: Orange pottery, 6.5 x 6.5 cm. Inscribed on two sides: on obverse 4 lines and on reverse 2 lines in black ink. Top obverse = bottom reverse. Damaged: broken off at right edge of obverse; beginnings of all four lines on obverse and both lines on reverse missing; line 2 on obverse slightly effaced.
Classification: oath
Keywords: beating - donkey(?) - oath - term
Provenance: Donated to the IFAO by A. Gardiner; mark: AG 77
Publication: Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh XI, 126, 352 (photographs, facsimiles, transcriptions, description, transliteration, translation and commentary); Gutgesell, Die Datierung I, 392 (brief description); Janssen, Donkeys at Deir el-Medina , 23-24 (summary of contents and commentary)
Dates mentioned: IV Ax.t [...] (obv. ~3#)
Dates attributed: Mid dyn. 20 (Janssen), Ramesses III - Ramesses IV (Grandet, Gutgesell)
Contents: Record of the oath taken by water-carrier Pn-6A-wr.t to give the donkey(?) before a certain date and if not he would be liable to a hundred blows. On reverse mention of witnesses??
Terminology: wAH [...] (obv. 1-2); r SAa Abd ? (obv. 3)
Names/Titles: Imn-nxt ( sS ; rev. 1); Pn-6A-wr.t ( in-mw ; obv. ~1#); RSw-ptr=f ( idn.w ; rev. 1-~2#)
Remarks: -

Record last updated 2024-07-12


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