The Deir el-Medina Database

P. Louvre N 3169

Other nos.: -

Description: Papyrus, 23.5 x 22 cm. Black ink, one side (H/V), 8 lines. Damaged; ends of lines 1 and 2 lost.

Classification: letter

Keywords: village

Provenance: no indication

Publication: G. Maspero, Mémoires sur quelques papyrus du Louvre , Paris 1875, 110-113 with plate (facsimile, transcription, translation, commentary); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VI, 523 (transcription); see Remarks

Dates mentioned: -

Dates attributed: Dyn. 20 (Maspero), Ramesses IX or Ramesses XI (Kitchen; see Remarks)

Contents: Letter by a vizier, urging the addressee to come together with policemen from Pr-Hby.t , and to take note of the "track" (or "condition"?) of the Meshwesh.

Terminology: ix rx=k sw (8); NN r Dd n NN (~1#?)

Names/Titles: an. ( nA MSwS ; 7); an. ( TAty n pA tA ; 1); Pr-Hby.t (geo.; 4) Incomplete/unclear: an. ( nA ... mDAy ; 3-4); 4r- [...] ( Hr.y-mDAy ; 2 - 4r-MnTw ( Hr.y-mDAy ?); see Remarks)

Remarks: Publication: transcription in Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VI, 523 after Maspero. More accurate transcription in Cern Notebook 35.55. Dates attributed, Names, Titles: if the chief policeman 4r-MnTw is mentioned in line 2, the text probably dates to the later reign of Ramesses XI; cf. Cern Community of Workmen , 270.

Record last updated 2007-01-29

	P. Louvre N 3169
Other nos.:	-

Description:	Papyrus, 23.5 x 22 cm. Black ink, one side (H/V), 8 lines. Damaged; ends of lines 1 and 2 lost.
Classification:	letter
Keywords:	village
Provenance:	no indication
Publication:	G. Maspero, Mémoires sur quelques papyrus du Louvre , Paris 1875, 110-113 with plate (facsimile, transcription, translation, commentary); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VI, 523 (transcription); see Remarks
Dates mentioned:	-
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 20 (Maspero), Ramesses IX or Ramesses XI (Kitchen; see Remarks)
Contents:	Letter by a vizier, urging the addressee to come together with policemen from Pr-Hby.t , and to take note of the "track" (or "condition"?) of the Meshwesh.
Terminology:	ix rx=k sw (8); NN r Dd n NN (~1#?)
Names/Titles:	an. ( nA MSwS ; 7); an. ( TAty n pA tA ; 1); Pr-Hby.t (geo.; 4) Incomplete/unclear: an. ( nA ... mDAy ; 3-4); 4r- [...] ( Hr.y-mDAy ; 2 - 4r-MnTw ( Hr.y-mDAy ?); see Remarks)
Remarks:	Publication: transcription in Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VI, 523 after Maspero. More accurate transcription in Cern Notebook 35.55. Dates attributed, Names, Titles: if the chief policeman 4r-MnTw is mentioned in line 2, the text probably dates to the later reign of Ramesses XI; cf. Cern Community of Workmen , 270.