O. Wente | |
Other nos.: | - |
Description: | Pottery sherd, ca. 14.5 x 15.5 cm. Inscribed on one side in black ink, 7 lines. Complete: middle and ends of lines 1 and 2 slightly effaced, ends of lines 3-5 slightly effaced, beginning of line 4 effaced. |
Classification: | letter |
Keywords: | goat - illness - Necropolis - oil - river-bank |
Provenance: | No indication. |
Publication: | Wente, in: Studies Simpson 2, 855-867 (facsimile, transcription, translation, commentary); Wente, Letters , 143 no. 188 (translation) |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | Late dyn. 19 or early dyn. 20 (Wente) |
Contents: | A letter by an anonymous sender to the chief of police MnTw-ms , about acquiring a goat for the wife of the former, who is ill. The author denies having been removed from the necropolis community. |
Terminology: | n NN (~1#) |
Names/Titles: | MnTw-ms (Hr.y-mDAy ; ~1#) |
Remarks: | - |