The Deir el-Medina Database

O. Strasbourg H. 052

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Description: Limestone, 5.5 x 6 cms. Damaged. One side, with remains of three lines in black ink. Broken of on all sides.

Classification: letter

Keywords: -

Provenance: No indication; see Remarks.

Publication: Koenig, Ostraca Strasbourg , 5 (description), pl. 16 (facsimile, transcription), pl. 106 (photograph); W. Spiegelberg, Hieratic Ostraka & Papyri Found by J.E. Quibell in the Ramesseum, 1895-6 (Egyptian Research Account. Extra Volume), London 1898, pl. XVI, 130 (facsimile)

Dates mentioned: -

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

Contents: A few isolated words of a letter, concerning a.o. cakes(?).

Terminology: -

Names/Titles: -

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).

Record last updated 2005-05-27

	O. Strasbourg H. 052
Other nos.:	-

Description:	Limestone, 5.5 x 6 cms. Damaged. One side, with remains of three lines in black ink. Broken of on all sides.
Classification:	letter
Keywords:	-
Provenance:	No indication; see Remarks.
Publication:	Koenig, Ostraca Strasbourg , 5 (description), pl. 16 (facsimile, transcription), pl. 106 (photograph); W. Spiegelberg, Hieratic Ostraka & Papyri Found by J.E. Quibell in the Ramesseum, 1895-6 (Egyptian Research Account. Extra Volume), London 1898, pl. XVI, 130 (facsimile)
Dates mentioned:	-
Dates attributed:	D yn. 19 or dyn. 20 (Koenig)
Contents:	A few isolated words of a letter, concerning a.o. cakes(?).
Terminology:	-
Names/Titles:	-
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).