The Deir el-Medina Database

P. DeM 21

Other nos.: -

Description: Papyrus, 15 x 18.5 cm. Black ink, recto 4 lines, verso 6 lines, top recto = bottom verso (see Remarks). Palimpsest. Damaged, ends of all lines lost, gap in recto 4 and verso 2 and 3.

Classification: letter - list

Keywords: commissioning - fat - payment(?) - textile - woodwork

Provenance: no indication

Publication: Černý, Papyrus Deir El Medineh II, 2, pls. 4 and 4a (description, transcription, photograph)

Dates mentioned: -

Dates attributed: Dyn. 19 or Dyn. 20 (Koenig)

Contents: Letter (by Wsr-HA.t-ms ?) to a man. The addressee will be given something if he carries out an assignment. Verso: list of items, after which the letter is resumed (see Remarks).

Terminology: snn n pA nkt nty im [...?] (verso 1)

Names/Titles: Wsr-HA.t-ms (recto ~1#(?), 2; verso 1?)

Remarks: Correction recto 2: Winand, CdE 68 (1993), 85. Corrections verso 1: Allam, BiOr 46 (1989), 31. Fragment at end of verso 1 should probably be placed more to the left, leaving some space before Wsr-HA.t-ms . Description/Contents: the words 'recto' and 'verso' are maintained here as used by the editor, although the text may actually start on the side called 'verso'.

Record last updated 2002-08-01

	P. DeM 21
Other nos.:	-

Description:	Papyrus, 15 x 18.5 cm. Black ink, recto 4 lines, verso 6 lines, top recto = bottom verso (see Remarks). Palimpsest. Damaged, ends of all lines lost, gap in recto 4 and verso 2 and 3.
Classification:	letter - list
Keywords:	commissioning - fat - payment(?) - textile - woodwork
Provenance:	no indication
Publication:	Černý, Papyrus Deir El Medineh II, 2, pls. 4 and 4a (description, transcription, photograph)
Dates mentioned:	-
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 19 or Dyn. 20 (Koenig)
Contents:	Letter (by Wsr-HA.t-ms ?) to a man. The addressee will be given something if he carries out an assignment. Verso: list of items, after which the letter is resumed (see Remarks).
Terminology:	snn n pA nkt nty im [...?] (verso 1)
Names/Titles:	Wsr-HA.t-ms (recto ~1#(?), 2; verso 1?)
Remarks:	Correction recto 2: Winand, CdE 68 (1993), 85. Corrections verso 1: Allam, BiOr 46 (1989), 31. Fragment at end of verso 1 should probably be placed more to the left, leaving some space before Wsr-HA.t-ms . Description/Contents: the words 'recto' and 'verso' are maintained here as used by the editor, although the text may actually start on the side called 'verso'.