The Deir el-Medina Database

O. DeM 10248

Other nos.: O. IFAO 01296; O. IFAO inv. no. SA 05637; O. IFAO inv. no. SA 05638; O. IFAO inv. no. SA 05654

Description: Red pottery (6 joining fragments) with orange slip, 22 x 16 cm. Inscribed on one side with 10 lines in black ink. Damaged: broken off at right and left edges; beginnings of lines 2-6 and ends of lines 3-5 missing. See Remarks.

Classification: letter

Keywords: drinking - grain rations - term - wages

Provenance: Deir el-Medina, Grand Puits, 26-03-1949

Publication: Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medina XI, 129-131, 355-357 (photograph, facsimile, transcription, description, transliteration, translation and commentary); see Remarks

Dates mentioned: -

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

Contents: Letter from a scorpion charmer to the necropolis scribe 1r about grain rations and wages.

Terminology: NN n NN m anx wDA snb m Hsw.t (~1-2#); r SAa m [...] (~4#); Hna Dd (~3#)

Names/Titles: an. ( in-mw ; 4); an. ( xrp-4ro.t ; ~1#); Imn-Ra it nTr.w (deity; 2); Wsr-HA.t-nxt ( in-mw ; 9); 1r ( sS n pA 2r ; 1) Incomplete: [...]- Imn (6)

Remarks: Description, Publication: top right fragment currently missing, hence not in the facsimile and photo by Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medina XI, 355-356 , but known in transcription from Cern Notebook 61.70.

Record last updated 2024-04-25

	O. DeM 10248
Other nos.:	O. IFAO 01296; O. IFAO inv. no. SA 05637; O. IFAO inv. no. SA 05638; O. IFAO inv. no. SA 05654

Description:	Red pottery (6 joining fragments) with orange slip, 22 x 16 cm. Inscribed on one side with 10 lines in black ink. Damaged: broken off at right and left edges; beginnings of lines 2-6 and ends of lines 3-5 missing. See Remarks.
Classification:	letter
Keywords:	drinking - grain rations - term - wages
Provenance:	Deir el-Medina, Grand Puits, 26-03-1949
Publication:	Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medina XI, 129-131, 355-357 (photograph, facsimile, transcription, description, transliteration, translation and commentary); see Remarks
Dates mentioned:	-
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 20, year 2 Ramesses IV(?) (Grandet)
Contents:	Letter from a scorpion charmer to the necropolis scribe 1r about grain rations and wages.
Terminology:	NN n NN m anx wDA snb m Hsw.t (~1-2#); r SAa m [...] (~4#); Hna Dd (~3#)
Names/Titles:	an. ( in-mw ; 4); an. ( xrp-4ro.t ; ~1#); Imn-Ra it nTr.w (deity; 2); Wsr-HA.t-nxt ( in-mw ; 9); 1r ( sS n pA 2r ; 1) Incomplete: [...]- Imn (6)
Remarks:	Description, Publication: top right fragment currently missing, hence not in the facsimile and photo by Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medina XI, 355-356 , but known in transcription from Cern Notebook 61.70.