O. DeM 10250
Other nos.: O. IFAO 10064; O. IFAO inv. no. SA 13126
  
Description: Limestone, 9.5 x 18 cm. Inscribed on two sides: on obverse 7 lines and on reverse 6 lines in black ink. Top obverse = bottom reverse. Damaged: broken off at right and left edges; surface degraded and effaced; beginnings and ends of all seven lines on obverse lost; obv. 4 and 5 largely lost; only traces of obv. 3 and 7; beginning of rev. 3 lost. Palimpsest: on obverse traces of an earlier text and a sketch. See Remarks
Classification: letter - list : delivery
Keywords: beer - bread
Provenance: Deir el-Medina, Kom du Grand Puits, 11-03-1950(?)
Publication: Grandet, Ostraca Deir el-Medineh XI, 134-135, 359-360 (photographs, facsimiles, transcriptions, description, transliteration, translation and commentary)
Dates mentioned: III Ax.t sw 5 (rev. 3); III Ax.t sw 7 (rev. 6)
Dates attributed: Dyn. 19, Ramesses II (Grandet)
Contents: Letter from the draughtsman Nb-Ra to his son the draughtsman Nxt-Imn about a dispute and deliveries of bread and beer by two policemen.
Terminology: iny.t n=k m Dr.t NN (rev. 1, 4); Dd.n NN n NN m anx wDA snb Hna Dd (obv. ~1-2#); dmD (obv. 6)
Names/Titles: PA-sr ( mDAy ; rev. 4); Nb-Ra ( sS-od ; obv. 1); Nx ( mDAy ; obv. 5-~6#, rev. 1); Nxt-Imn ( sS-od ; sA of Nb-Ra ; obv. ~1-2#)
Remarks: Description: Grandet notes that the handwriting of this letter is the same as that on O. DeM 00558 and O. DeM 10075.

Record last updated 2024-04-25


©1998-2024 The Deir el-Medina Database, Leiden University