The Deir el-Medina Database

O. Strasbourg H. 059

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Description: Pottery (vase fragment), 10 x 9.5 cms. Damaged. Two sides with six and five lines respectively in black and red ink ( workmen's marks (or 'funny signs') and hieratic signs). On obverse the right edge seems complete, but all other sides broken off. On reverse all sides seem broken off. Top obverse = top reverse.

Classification: account - journal : delivery(?) - duty(?)

Keywords: -

Provenance: No indication; see Remarks.

Publication: Koenig, Ostraca Strasbourg , 6 (description), pl. 18 (facsimile), pl. 107 (photograph)

Dates mentioned: sw 19-20 (?obv. 1, 2); sw 24-27 (rev. 2, 4, corrected from sw 25-28?)

Dates attributed: Koenig: dyn. 19 or dyn. 20

Contents: On both obverse and reverse lists of consecutive days, followed by workmen's marks (or 'funny signs') and numbers.

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). Contents: for the workmen's marks (or 'funny signs') see O. Strasbourg H. 011.

Record last updated 2005-12-01

	O. Strasbourg H. 059
Other nos.:	-

Description:	Pottery (vase fragment), 10 x 9.5 cms. Damaged. Two sides with six and five lines respectively in black and red ink ( workmen's marks (or 'funny signs') and hieratic signs). On obverse the right edge seems complete, but all other sides broken off. On reverse all sides seem broken off. Top obverse = top reverse.
Classification:	account - journal : delivery(?) - duty(?)
Keywords:	-
Provenance:	No indication; see Remarks.
Publication:	Koenig, Ostraca Strasbourg , 6 (description), pl. 18 (facsimile), pl. 107 (photograph)
Dates mentioned:	sw 19-20 (?obv. 1, 2); sw 24-27 (rev. 2, 4, corrected from sw 25-28?)
Dates attributed:	Koenig: dyn. 19 or dyn. 20
Contents:	On both obverse and reverse lists of consecutive days, followed by workmen's marks (or 'funny signs') and numbers.
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). Contents: for the workmen's marks (or 'funny signs') see O. Strasbourg H. 011.