The Deir el-Medina Database

P. BM EA 10300

Other nos.: LRL 23; P. Salt 1821/161; 8 A.129

Description: Papyrus sheet, 23 x 19.5 cm. Complete. Palimpsest. Recto H/V, verso V/H. Top recto = bottom verso. In black ink 10 lines on the recto and 7 lines (including address) on the verso. Many breaks, mostly along the folds, have caused some loss of writing in several places. Address at the bottom of the verso.

Classification: letter

Keywords: document - message

Provenance: Acquired by the British Museum in 1821 with the collection of H. Salt formed in 1818 or 1819 in Thebes.

Publication: Černý, Late Ramesside Letters , X and XVI (description), 37-39 (transcription); Janssen, Late Ramesside Letters and Communications , pls. 35-36 (photographs); Wente, Late Ramesside Letters , 55-56 (translation and commentary); Wente, Letters , 181-182 no. 298 (translation).

Dates mentioned: -

Dates attributed: Late dyn. 20 (Černý); year 7 of wHm ms.w.t of Ramesses XI (Wente)

Contents: A letter from the second prophet of Amon-Re 1oA-nfr to the necropolis scribe 7ry (who is in Thebes), asking him to pray for his safe return home and to write him a letter. This is followed by a similar communication from the general's servant Pn-Hr-Sfy.t. See Remarks.

Terminology: nfr snb=k (recto 8; verso 6); NN n NN m anx wDA snb m Hs.w.t (recto 1-2); NN n NN (verso 7); hAb (recto 8; verso 6); Sa.t (recto 5; verso 5); ky Dd n NN (n) NN m anx wDA snb m Hs.w.t (recto 9 - verso 1)

Names/Titles: an. (nTr nb nTr.t nb.t ; deities; recto ~3#; verso 2); an. (nTr.w nb.w WAs.t ; deities; recto 6); Imn (deity; verso 5); Imn-Ra-nswt-nTr.w (deity; recto 2, ~4# (pAy=k nb ); 6; verso 1, 4 (pAy=k nb )); Imn-Ra-1r-Ax.t.y (deity; verso 1); Imn 3nm.t-nHH (deity; recto 6); Pn-Hr-Sfy.t (sDm n pA im.y-r mSa ; recto 10); Mw.t (f.; deity; recto 6); Niw.t (geo.; recto 7); 1oA-nfr (Hm-nTr sn.nw n Imn-Ra-nswt-nTr.w ; recto 1; verso ~7#); 2nsw (deity; recto 6); 7ry (written 7rTiA ; sS n pA 2r aA Sps.y n HH.w m rnp.w.t ; recto 1-2, 9 - written 7rT ; verso 7 - without long title)

Remarks: Description: The separate strip formerly mounted with this papyrus is now P. BM EA 71511. Contents: 1oA-nfr is the second son of the general PAy-anx .

Record last updated 2004-08-06

	P. BM EA 10300
Other nos.:	LRL 23; P. Salt 1821/161; 8 A.129

Description:	Papyrus sheet, 23 x 19.5 cm. Complete. Palimpsest. Recto H/V, verso V/H. Top recto = bottom verso. In black ink 10 lines on the recto and 7 lines (including address) on the verso. Many breaks, mostly along the folds, have caused some loss of writing in several places. Address at the bottom of the verso.
Classification:	letter
Keywords:	document - message
Provenance:	Acquired by the British Museum in 1821 with the collection of H. Salt formed in 1818 or 1819 in Thebes.
Publication:	Černý, Late Ramesside Letters , X and XVI (description), 37-39 (transcription); Janssen, Late Ramesside Letters and Communications , pls. 35-36 (photographs); Wente, Late Ramesside Letters , 55-56 (translation and commentary); Wente, Letters , 181-182 no. 298 (translation).
Dates mentioned:	-
Dates attributed:	Late dyn. 20 (Černý); year 7 of wHm ms.w.t of Ramesses XI (Wente)
Contents:	A letter from the second prophet of Amon-Re 1oA-nfr to the necropolis scribe 7ry (who is in Thebes), asking him to pray for his safe return home and to write him a letter. This is followed by a similar communication from the general's servant Pn-Hr-Sfy.t. See Remarks.
Terminology:	nfr snb=k (recto 8; verso 6); NN n NN m anx wDA snb m Hs.w.t (recto 1-2); NN n NN (verso 7); hAb (recto 8; verso 6); Sa.t (recto 5; verso 5); ky Dd n NN (n) NN m anx wDA snb m Hs.w.t (recto 9 - verso 1)
Names/Titles:	an. (nTr nb nTr.t nb.t ; deities; recto ~3#; verso 2); an. (nTr.w nb.w WAs.t ; deities; recto 6); Imn (deity; verso 5); Imn-Ra-nswt-nTr.w (deity; recto 2, ~4# (pAy=k nb ); 6; verso 1, 4 (pAy=k nb )); Imn-Ra-1r-Ax.t.y (deity; verso 1); Imn 3nm.t-nHH (deity; recto 6); Pn-Hr-Sfy.t (sDm n pA im.y-r mSa ; recto 10); Mw.t (f.; deity; recto 6); Niw.t (geo.; recto 7); 1oA-nfr (Hm-nTr sn.nw n Imn-Ra-nswt-nTr.w ; recto 1; verso ~7#); 2nsw (deity; recto 6); 7ry (written 7rTiA ; sS n pA 2r aA Sps.y n HH.w m rnp.w.t ; recto 1-2, 9 - written 7rT ; verso 7 - without long title)
Remarks:	Description: The separate strip formerly mounted with this papyrus is now P. BM EA 71511. Contents: 1oA-nfr is the second son of the general PAy-anx .