P. BM EA 10433 | |
Other nos.: | LRL 27A; P. Salt 1821/128; 9 A.96 |
Description: | Papyrus sheet, 11 x 10 cm. Broken in 5 horizontal strips. Recto V/H, verso H/V. Top recto = bottom verso. Damaged at the right of the recto, perhaps also at the bottom, beginnings of all lines lost. In black ink 3 lines on the recto and 4 lines (including address) on the verso. Address at the bottom of the verso. Very tall writing on the recto, smaller on the verso. |
Classification: | letter : deficit |
Keywords: | illness - 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 , XI and XVI (description), 43 (transcription); Janssen, Late Ramesside Letters and Communications , pl. 46 (photographs); Wente, Late Ramesside Letters , 59 (translation). |
Dates mentioned: | - |
Dates attributed: | Late dyn. 20 (Černý); during wHm ms.w.t of Ramesses XI (Wente) |
Contents: | Incomplete letter from an unknown sender to the scribe 7ry . Mention is made of "the illness" and a guardian of the sender. |
Terminology: | NN n NN (rt. ~1#; vs. ~4#); hAb (verso ~2#); Hna Dd (recto 1) |
Names/Titles: | an. (pA sAw ink ; recto ~3#); 7ry (sS ; recto ~1#; verso ~4#) |
Remarks: | - |