O. Fitzwilliam Museum E.GA.6135.1943 | |
Other nos.: | - |
Description: | Limestone, 7 x 12 cm. Inscribed on two sides; on obverse 4 lines and on reverse 4 lines in black ink. Top obverse = top reverse. Damaged; chipped off at right and left edge of obverse and reverse; beginnings of obv. 1 and ends of all lines on obverse and reverse lost. |
Classification: | letter - oath |
Keywords: | basketry(?) - oath - yarn |
Provenance: | In the Fitzwilliam Museum since 1943 as part of the R.G. Gayer-Anderson bequest. |
Publication: | Hagen, New Kingdom Ostraca , 36-37 (description, translation and commentary), pls. 44-45 (photographs, facsimile and transcription) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | see Remarks |
Contents: | Obverse: letter from scribe/draughtsman PAy to his son, mentioning i.a. a quantity of yarn; reverse (continuation of obverse?) includes an oath. |
Terminology: | nfr.y.t r pA hrw (obv. 4); NN n NN (obv. 1); Dd.n NN (rev. 1) Incomplete: wAH [...] (rev. 2) |
Names/Titles: | PA-5w (deity; rev. 2); PAy ( sS-od ; obv. ~1#, rev. 1 - name only) Incomplete: PA- [...] ( sS-od ; obv. ~1# - either PA-Ra-m-Hb ( sS-od ) or PA-Ra-Htp ( sS-od )?) |
Remarks: | Date attributed: first half dyn. 19 in view of palaeography and personal names (Demarée). |