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O. UC 39624

Other nos.: HO 45, 2; O. Petrie 23

Description: Limestone, 1 4.0 x 1 0.8 cm. Two sides; obverse: thirteen lines and a possible trace of a fourteenth; reverse: thirteen lines. Black ink. Damaged; the top right of obverse and possibly a chip from the bottom as well as the top of reverse have broken off; ink much effaced, esp. on obverse. Top obverse = top reverse.

Classification: account - journal : delivery - duty

Keywords: beer - bread - dates - side (of gang)

Provenance: No indication

Publication: Černý-Gardiner, Hieratic Ostraca , 14 (description) and pl. 45-45A no. 2 (facsimile, transcription); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions V, 598-599 (transcription); Helck, Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka , 443, 445 (outline of content) ; www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk (description, photograph)

Dates mentioned: sw 21-27 (obv. 1, 2, ~4#, 5, 6, 8, 9); sw 29 (obv. 10); rnp.t-sp 2 IV Smw sw 1 (obv. ~12#); sw 25-30 (rev. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8); III Smw sw 1-4 (rev. 9, 10, 11, 12)

Dates attributed: Dyn. 20, Ramesses III ( Kitchen ); see Remarks; year 2 Ramesses VI (Helck)

Contents: Journal listing delivery of several commodities.

Terminology: iny.t (obv. ~11#); r wnmy (obv. 2, 6, 9, ~13#, rev. 2, 8); r smHy (obv. 5, ~7#, rev. 10); r smHy m hrw pn (rev. 4); HA.w (obv. ~13#); Ssp m Dr.t NN (obv. ~1#, 2, 4, 5, ~6#, 8, 9, ~10#, ~11# (?), ~12#, rev. 3, 4, 5, 6 (name not filled in), 7, 8, 9, 10, ~11#, 12)

Names/Titles: an. (pA idn.w 2 ; rev. 7); Imn-m-In.t (obv. ~9#); aA-nxt.w (obv. 5, rev. 10); Wsr-HA.t (rev. 3); BAk-n-wrnr (obv. ~6#, rev. ~11#); Nb-nfr (rev. ~5#); Rt (obv. 2, rev. 8); 1Ay (obv. ~10#); 4bA (obv. [4], rev. 9); OnnA (rev. 4); 6nr-MnTw (obv. 8, rev. ~13#); Incomplete: [...] (obv. 12); PA-[...] (obv. 1)

Remarks: Date attributed: duty roster of left side of gang, dated to Ramesses V or Ramesses VI by Gutgesell, Datierung I, 80-84. However, if duty roster (19 days) is that of the left side of the gang, year 30 of Ramesses III or earlier seems equally possible (cf. ibid., 69). Same sequence of names on O. Ashmolean Museum 0016.

Record last updated 2012-06-13

	O. UC 39624
Other nos.:	HO 45, 2; O. Petrie 23

Description:	Limestone, 1 4.0 x 1 0.8 cm. Two sides; obverse: thirteen lines and a possible trace of a fourteenth; reverse: thirteen lines. Black ink. Damaged; the top right of obverse and possibly a chip from the bottom as well as the top of reverse have broken off; ink much effaced, esp. on obverse. Top obverse = top reverse.
Classification:	account - journal : delivery - duty
Keywords:	beer - bread - dates - side (of gang)
Provenance:	No indication
Publication:	Černý-Gardiner, Hieratic Ostraca , 14 (description) and pl. 45-45A no. 2 (facsimile, transcription); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions V, 598-599 (transcription); Helck, Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka , 443, 445 (outline of content) ; www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk (description, photograph)
Dates mentioned:	sw 21-27 (obv. 1, 2, ~4#, 5, 6, 8, 9); sw 29 (obv. 10); rnp.t-sp 2 IV Smw sw 1 (obv. ~12#); sw 25-30 (rev. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8); III Smw sw 1-4 (rev. 9, 10, 11, 12)
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 20, Ramesses III ( Kitchen ); see Remarks; year 2 Ramesses VI (Helck)
Contents:	Journal listing delivery of several commodities.
Terminology:	iny.t (obv. ~11#); r wnmy (obv. 2, 6, 9, ~13#, rev. 2, 8); r smHy (obv. 5, ~7#, rev. 10); r smHy m hrw pn (rev. 4); HA.w (obv. ~13#); Ssp m Dr.t NN (obv. ~1#, 2, 4, 5, ~6#, 8, 9, ~10#, ~11# (?), ~12#, rev. 3, 4, 5, 6 (name not filled in), 7, 8, 9, 10, ~11#, 12)
Names/Titles:	an. (pA idn.w 2 ; rev. 7); Imn-m-In.t (obv. ~9#); aA-nxt.w (obv. 5, rev. 10); Wsr-HA.t (rev. 3); BAk-n-wrnr (obv. ~6#, rev. ~11#); Nb-nfr (rev. ~5#); Rt (obv. 2, rev. 8); 1Ay (obv. ~10#); 4bA (obv. [4], rev. 9); OnnA (rev. 4); 6nr-MnTw (obv. 8, rev. ~13#); Incomplete: [...] (obv. 12); PA-[...] (obv. 1)
Remarks:	Date attributed: duty roster of left side of gang, dated to Ramesses V or Ramesses VI by Gutgesell, Datierung I, 80-84. However, if duty roster (19 days) is that of the left side of the gang, year 30 of Ramesses III or earlier seems equally possible (cf. ibid., 69). Same sequence of names on O. Ashmolean Museum 0016.