O. Turin N. 57043
Other nos.: O. Turin suppl. 5671, O. Turin inv. no. 10329
  
Description: Limestone, 19 x 7 cms. Damaged (part of lower edge has broken away). Two sides. Obverse: 11 lines; reverse: 11 lines. Many lines are much effaced. Black ink. Top obverse = top reverse; see Remarks.
Classification: account - journal : expense - labour - portion
Keywords: grain rations - inactivity - lamp
Provenance: Valley of Queens; excavations Schiaparelli 1903-1905.
Publication: Lopez, Ostraca ieratici 1, 30 (description), pl. 27-27a (facsimile, transcription); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions V, 603 (transcription); Helck, Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka , 268, 270 (outline of content)
Dates mentioned: sw 8-9 (obv. ~1-2#); sw 11-18 (obv. 7-10); sw 21-22 (obv. 10-11); III Ax.t sw 15-19 (rev. ~1#-~3#); IV Ax.t sw 15-17 (rev. ~4#-~5#); sw 10 + x (rev. 7); sw 28-29 (rev. ~8#); I pr.t sw 5 (rev. ~9#); I pr.t [...] (rev. 10); sw 8 (?) (rev. 11)
Dates attributed: Dyn. 20, Ramesses III ( Lopez, Kitchen ); year 25 Ramesses III (Helck)
Contents: Account of lamps and grain rations; mention of inactivity.
Terminology: wsf (obv. 7); hAw (obv. ~4#, ~5#, ~6#); di.w (obv. 9; but perhaps in abbreviation in: obv. ~8#, rev. ~1#, ~4#, ~5#, ~8#, ~11#)
Names/Titles: -
Remarks: For the scribe, who wrote many ostraca now kept in the Turin Museum, see Donker van Heel, Haring, Writing in a Workmen's Village , 65-71.

Record last updated 2005-05-27


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