The Deir el-Medina Database

O. Strasbourg H. 023

Other nos.: -

Description: Pottery (vase fragment), 5.5 x 9.5 cms. Damaged. One side, with four lines in black and red ink. Upper and lower edge broken off, all lines partly effaced.

Classification: journal : delivery

Keywords: fish

Provenance: No indication; see Remarks.

Publication: Koenig, Ostraca Strasbourg , 4 (description), pl. 6 (facsimile, transcription), pl. 103 (photograph)

Dates mentioned: I pr.t sw 11-13 (1, 2, 3); see Remarks

Dates attributed: D yn. 19 or dyn. 20 (Koenig) ; see Remarks

Contents: Journal covering some days in the first month of pr.t and in l. 4 recording the delivery of dried fish.

Terminology: -

Names/Titles: Nfr-Htp (3); Nxw-m-Mw.t ( 1? see Remarks ); 2a-m-Nwn (2)

Remarks: Provenance: note that many of the Strasbourg ostraca were excavated by J.E. Quibell in the Ramesseum in 1895-1896 and given to the Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire by W.M. Flinders Petrie in 1918 (Koenig, Ostraca Strasbourg , 1; Spiegelberg, ZÄS 58 (1923), 25, note 4). Date(s) mentioned: the sign-group for 'first month' is not given in the published facsimile nor in the transcription, yet visible on the photograph. Dates attributed: in view of the turnus of guard duties, I pr.t of year 31 (R.J. Demarée; see Helck, ZDMG 105 (1955), 37) and seems to follow O. DeM 0159. Names, Titles: the name in l. 1 (Koenig: Ii-m-Htp ; cf. Müller, LingAeg 7 (2000), 276: Ii-r-niw.t=f or Ns-Imn ) is more probably to be read as Nxw-m-Mw.t . In l. 4 after tpi -fish read Sw (Gard. N 8) instead of ' Abd 3'.

Record last updated 2005-05-27

	O. Strasbourg H. 023
Other nos.:	-

Description:	Pottery (vase fragment), 5.5 x 9.5 cms. Damaged. One side, with four lines in black and red ink. Upper and lower edge broken off, all lines partly effaced.
Classification:	journal : delivery
Keywords:	fish
Provenance:	No indication; see Remarks.
Publication:	Koenig, Ostraca Strasbourg , 4 (description), pl. 6 (facsimile, transcription), pl. 103 (photograph)
Dates mentioned:	I pr.t sw 11-13 (1, 2, 3); see Remarks
Dates attributed:	D yn. 19 or dyn. 20 (Koenig) ; see Remarks
Contents:	Journal covering some days in the first month of pr.t and in l. 4 recording the delivery of dried fish.
Terminology:	-
Names/Titles:	Nfr-Htp (3); Nxw-m-Mw.t ( 1? see Remarks ); 2a-m-Nwn (2)
Remarks:	Provenance: note that many of the Strasbourg ostraca were excavated by J.E. Quibell in the Ramesseum in 1895-1896 and given to the Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire by W.M. Flinders Petrie in 1918 (Koenig, Ostraca Strasbourg , 1; Spiegelberg, ZÄS 58 (1923), 25, note 4). Date(s) mentioned: the sign-group for 'first month' is not given in the published facsimile nor in the transcription, yet visible on the photograph. Dates attributed: in view of the turnus of guard duties, I pr.t of year 31 (R.J. Demarée; see Helck, ZDMG 105 (1955), 37) and seems to follow O. DeM 0159. Names, Titles: the name in l. 1 (Koenig: Ii-m-Htp ; cf. Müller, LingAeg 7 (2000), 276: Ii-r-niw.t=f or Ns-Imn ) is more probably to be read as Nxw-m-Mw.t . In l. 4 after tpi -fish read Sw (Gard. N 8) instead of ' Abd 3'.