O. Strasbourg H. 096 | |
Other nos.: | - |
Description: | Pottery (vase fragment), 7 x 8.5 cms. Damaged. One side, with remains of three lines in black ink. Bottom, right and left edge broken off, causing severe loss of writing. All lines partly effaced. |
Classification: | letter |
Keywords: | temple |
Provenance: | No indication; see Remarks. |
Publication: | Koenig, Ostraca Strasbourg , 8 (description), pl. 33 (facsimile, transcription), pl. 112 (photograph) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | D yn. 19 or dyn. 20 (Koenig) |
Contents: | Beginning of a letter from a scribe 1r to an anonymous person attached to a 'temple of millions of years'. |
Terminology: | - |
Names/Titles: | 1r (sS n pr ... ; 1) ; [...] n tA Hw.t n.t HH [...] (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). |