O. Turin N. 57177
Other nos.: O. Turin inv. no. 11264, O. Turin suppl. 6655
  
Description: Grey pottery vase fragment, with yellow protuberances on the external face and brown ones on the internal face, 8.5 x 8.5 cms. Damaged on all sides. Two sides; obverse: six lines in black ink, perpendicular to axis of vase; reverse: traces of one line in black ink in a different hand.
Classification: letter
Keywords: message
Provenance: Deir el-Medina; excavations Schiaparelli 1905.
Publication: Lopez, Ostraca ieratici 2, 33-34 (description), pl. 77-77a (facsimile and transcription of obverse)
Dates mentioned: -
Dates attributed: D yn. 19 or dyn. 20 (Lopez)
Contents: Fragment of a letter in which the sender states that he is doing his utmost in every task he is carrying out and that he has heard of the dispatch of the sender (called 'my lord').
Terminology: r nty (obv. ~1#, 5); hAb (obv. ~5#)
Names/Titles: -
Remarks: -

Record last updated 2005-05-27


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