O. UC 39668
Other nos.: HO 35, 2; O. Petrie 82
  
Description: Red pottery with yellow slip, 9.0 x 9. 4 cm. Two sides; obverse: five lines; reverse: two lines. Black ink. Damaged at top left of obverse; some of the ink has been rubbed off in obv. 3 and 5. Top obverse = top reverse.
Classification: account - letter (?)
Keywords: grain - textile - vegetables - yarn
Provenance: No indication
Publication: Černý-Gardiner, Hieratic Ostraca , 11 (description) and pl. 35-35A no. 2 (facsimile, transcription); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions III, 555 (transcription); Wente, Letters , 159 no. 240 (translation) ; www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk (description, photograph)
Dates mentioned: -
Dates attributed: Dyn. 19, Ramesses II (Kitchen) ; middle of dyn. 19 (Wente)
Contents: Letter (?) containing an instruction about some deliveries/payments to be made, the cost of some clothing and some yarn.
Terminology: ns NN (obv. 2-3); nty n NN (obv. 1)
Names/Titles: Pnbwy (obv. 1); 4nr (obv. 3 ; cf. 4r )
Remarks: -

Record last updated 2011-01-12


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