The Deir el-Medina Database

P. Berlin P 10488

Other nos.: LRL 34

Description: Papyrus sheet, 10.5 x 22 cm. Complete. Recto V/H, verso H/V. Top recto = bottom verso. In black ink 6 lines of writing on the recto and 1 line on the verso. No address. Correction by the scribe in recto 4. See Remarks.

Classification: letter

Keywords: death - house - message

Provenance: Bought by the Berlin museum in 1912. Found together with P. Berlin 10487 and P. Berlin P 10489.

Publication: Černý, Late Ramesside Letters , XII and XVII (description), 53-54 (transcription; see Remarks); Burkard & Fischer-Elfert, Aegyptische Handschriften 4, 65 no. 89 (description, bibliography) ; Erman, Abh. der Kön. Preussischen Ak. d. Wiss. 1913 (photos, description, transcription, translation, commentary); Janssen, Late Ramesside Letters and Communications , pl. 51 (photographs); Lefèvre, EAO 88 (2018), 19-24 (photographs, commentary); Wente, Late Ramesside Letters , 69 (translation); Wente, Letters , 183 no. 302 (translation)

Dates mentioned: -

Dates attributed: Late dyn. 20 (Černý); year 10 of wHm ms.w.t of Ramesses XI (Wente)

Contents: A brief letter from the general of Pharaoh (PAy-anx ) to the agent of the general PAy-5w-wbn concerning the matter of the two policeman who had uttered some charges. The agent is ordered to join up with the lady NDm.t and the necropolis scribe 7ry , to arrest and to investigate the case and then to kill the policemen and throw them in the water by night, unseen. See Remarks.

Terminology: NN n NN (recto 1); r Dd (recto 3); hAb (recto 2, 4); Hna Dd (recto 1)

Names/Titles: an. (pA im.y-r mSa n Pr-aA anx wDA snb ; recto 1); an. (pAy mDAy 2; recto 3, 5); PAy-5w-wbn (rwD.w ; recto 1) NDm.t (f.; recto 4); 7ry (sS ; recto 4)

Remarks: Description: originally rolled up together with P. Berlin P 10487 and P 10489, wrapped in linen and sealed; see Erman, Abh. der Kön. Preussischen Ak. d. Wiss. 1913, 1 and 14-15. Contents: The affair of the two policemen is also the subject of P. Berlin P 10487 (LRL 21) and P. Berlin P 10489 (LRL 35). Publication: In his transcription Černý has omitted in the beginning of recto line 2 the suffix .i after sDm (clear on the photograph).

Record last updated 2022-10-31

	P. Berlin P 10488
Other nos.:	LRL 34

Description:	Papyrus sheet, 10.5 x 22 cm. Complete. Recto V/H, verso H/V. Top recto = bottom verso. In black ink 6 lines of writing on the recto and 1 line on the verso. No address. Correction by the scribe in recto 4. See Remarks.
Classification:	letter
Keywords:	death - house - message
Provenance:	Bought by the Berlin museum in 1912. Found together with P. Berlin 10487 and P. Berlin P 10489.
Publication:	Černý, Late Ramesside Letters , XII and XVII (description), 53-54 (transcription; see Remarks); Burkard & Fischer-Elfert, Aegyptische Handschriften 4, 65 no. 89 (description, bibliography) ; Erman, Abh. der Kön. Preussischen Ak. d. Wiss. 1913 (photos, description, transcription, translation, commentary); Janssen, Late Ramesside Letters and Communications , pl. 51 (photographs); Lefèvre, EAO 88 (2018), 19-24 (photographs, commentary); Wente, Late Ramesside Letters , 69 (translation); Wente, Letters , 183 no. 302 (translation)
Dates mentioned:	-
Dates attributed:	Late dyn. 20 (Černý); year 10 of wHm ms.w.t of Ramesses XI (Wente)
Contents:	A brief letter from the general of Pharaoh (PAy-anx ) to the agent of the general PAy-5w-wbn concerning the matter of the two policeman who had uttered some charges. The agent is ordered to join up with the lady NDm.t and the necropolis scribe 7ry , to arrest and to investigate the case and then to kill the policemen and throw them in the water by night, unseen. See Remarks.
Terminology:	NN n NN (recto 1); r Dd (recto 3); hAb (recto 2, 4); Hna Dd (recto 1)
Names/Titles:	an. (pA im.y-r mSa n Pr-aA anx wDA snb ; recto 1); an. (pAy mDAy 2; recto 3, 5); PAy-5w-wbn (rwD.w ; recto 1) NDm.t (f.; recto 4); 7ry (sS ; recto 4)
Remarks:	Description: originally rolled up together with P. Berlin P 10487 and P 10489, wrapped in linen and sealed; see Erman, Abh. der Kön. Preussischen Ak. d. Wiss. 1913, 1 and 14-15. Contents: The affair of the two policemen is also the subject of P. Berlin P 10487 (LRL 21) and P. Berlin P 10489 (LRL 35). Publication: In his transcription Černý has omitted in the beginning of recto line 2 the suffix .i after sDm (clear on the photograph).