The Deir el-Medina Database

P. Turin Cat. 1883 + P. Turin Cat. 2095/249

Other nos.: P. Turin Pleyte-Rossi pl. 029

Description: Papyrus, 2 3.5 x 4 1 cm ; sheet joins at 14.5 cm and 38.5 cm from right edge of recto. Black ink, rect o ( H/V ) three columns: rect o I 4 lines ( recto I 1 running over recto II-I II), rect o II 1 1 lines, rect o III 12 lines ; vers o ( V/H ) one column of 9 lines close to right edge with top margin of 6.5 cm, part to the left of this column blank . Top recto = top verso. See Remarks. Correction by scribe in verso II 1. Damaged; beginnings of recto I 1-4, recto II 8-11 and recto III 8-12 lost ; ends of verso 8-9 lost; gaps in recto I 1; unknown number of lines lost at bottom of recto and verso .

Classification: account : delivery - event - name - portion

Keywords: appointment(?) - bronze - commissioning - copper - gum - metalwork - oil - side (of gang) - textile - tools - vessel - woodwork

Provenance: Presumably acquired by the government of Piedmont for the Turin museum from Bernardino Drovetti in 1823 (see e.g. S. Curto, Storia del Museo Egizio di Torino , 2nd ed., Turin 1976, 45).

Publication: Landrino, RiME 6 (2022), 100-123 (photographs, facsimiles, transcription, transliteration, translation, commentary); Helck, Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka , 461 (translation of recto 2-9 and verso I 1-2); Helck, Materialien VI, (981) (translation of recto 2-9); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VI, 431 and 432 (transcription); Pleyte-Rossi, Papyrus de Turin , 41 and 42, pl. XXIX (facsimile of recto and verso III 1-7, commentary)

Dates mentioned: rnp.t-sp 8 n nswt Wsr-mAa.t-Ra 4tp.n-Ra sA Ra nb xa.w It-Imn IV Smw sw 25 ( vers o I 1-2; see Remarks)

Dates attributed: Dyn. 20, year 8 Ramesses VII (Helck, Kitchen , Landrino )

Contents: Recto: commissioning of coppersmiths by the administrators of the Necropolis and the treasury scribe of the temple (of Ramesses III); distribution of tools to the gang. Verso: note about the vizier(?), followed by an account of textile, woodwork, oil, gum and bronze objects, with some workmen's names.

Terminology: ir n ( rect o III 4 , verso 8 ); a NN ( vers o 9); wa nb ( vers o ~8#); hrw pn Hn ( vers o 2); tA ri.t wnmy m Dr.t NN ( vers o 7); dmD (verso III ~12#?); ditto (verso III 3)

Names/Titles: an. ( nA Hwty.w nA rwD.w.w n pA 2r ; vers o 3 - Hwty.w written Hnty.w ); an. ( pA Hm-nTr tp.y n Imn ; vers o 4); an. ( nA Hmt.y.w ; vers o 2); an. ( TAty ; rect o I 1); Imn-xa ( idn.w ; rect o III ~11#); Wsr-mAa.t-Ra 4tp.n-Ra sA Ra nb xa.w It-Imn (king; recto 1); Nxw-m-Mw.t ( aA n is.t ; vers o 5 - written aA-is.t ; vers o 7 - written aA-is.t Nxw ); Ra-mry ( rmT-is.t ; rect o III 2); 1r ( sS pr-HD n tA Hw.t ; vers o 3-4); 1r-ms ( aA n is.t ; vers o 6 - written aA-is. t 1r-ms pA <...> ); Od-Hr-ix.t=f ( rmT-is.t ; rect o III ~1#) Incomplete [...] ( sS pr-HD [...]; vers o 9; cf. 1r )

Remarks: Description: what is recto according to Landrino, RiME 6 (2022), is verso in older publications, which all followed the indications in Cern Notebook 23.55-56. Dates mentioned : t he text of vers o 1 is to be inserted after the regnal year in line 2.

Record last updated 2024-05-17

	P. Turin Cat. 1883 + P. Turin Cat. 2095/249
Other nos.:	P. Turin Pleyte-Rossi pl. 029

Description:	Papyrus, 2 3.5 x 4 1 cm ; sheet joins at 14.5 cm and 38.5 cm from right edge of recto. Black ink, rect o ( H/V ) three columns: rect o I 4 lines ( recto I 1 running over recto II-I II), rect o II 1 1 lines, rect o III 12 lines ; vers o ( V/H ) one column of 9 lines close to right edge with top margin of 6.5 cm, part to the left of this column blank . Top recto = top verso. See Remarks. Correction by scribe in verso II 1. Damaged; beginnings of recto I 1-4, recto II 8-11 and recto III 8-12 lost ; ends of verso 8-9 lost; gaps in recto I 1; unknown number of lines lost at bottom of recto and verso .
Classification:	account : delivery - event - name - portion
Keywords:	appointment(?) - bronze - commissioning - copper - gum - metalwork - oil - side (of gang) - textile - tools - vessel - woodwork
Provenance:	Presumably acquired by the government of Piedmont for the Turin museum from Bernardino Drovetti in 1823 (see e.g. S. Curto, Storia del Museo Egizio di Torino , 2nd ed., Turin 1976, 45).
Publication:	Landrino, RiME 6 (2022), 100-123 (photographs, facsimiles, transcription, transliteration, translation, commentary); Helck, Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka , 461 (translation of recto 2-9 and verso I 1-2); Helck, Materialien VI, (981) (translation of recto 2-9); Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VI, 431 and 432 (transcription); Pleyte-Rossi, Papyrus de Turin , 41 and 42, pl. XXIX (facsimile of recto and verso III 1-7, commentary)
Dates mentioned:	rnp.t-sp 8 n nswt Wsr-mAa.t-Ra 4tp.n-Ra sA Ra nb xa.w It-Imn IV Smw sw 25 ( vers o I 1-2; see Remarks)
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 20, year 8 Ramesses VII (Helck, Kitchen , Landrino )
Contents:	Recto: commissioning of coppersmiths by the administrators of the Necropolis and the treasury scribe of the temple (of Ramesses III); distribution of tools to the gang. Verso: note about the vizier(?), followed by an account of textile, woodwork, oil, gum and bronze objects, with some workmen's names.
Terminology:	ir n ( rect o III 4 , verso 8 ); a NN ( vers o 9); wa nb ( vers o ~8#); hrw pn Hn ( vers o 2); tA ri.t wnmy m Dr.t NN ( vers o 7); dmD (verso III ~12#?); ditto (verso III 3)
Names/Titles:	an. ( nA Hwty.w nA rwD.w.w n pA 2r ; vers o 3 - Hwty.w written Hnty.w ); an. ( pA Hm-nTr tp.y n Imn ; vers o 4); an. ( nA Hmt.y.w ; vers o 2); an. ( TAty ; rect o I 1); Imn-xa ( idn.w ; rect o III ~11#); Wsr-mAa.t-Ra 4tp.n-Ra sA Ra nb xa.w It-Imn (king; recto 1); Nxw-m-Mw.t ( aA n is.t ; vers o 5 - written aA-is.t ; vers o 7 - written aA-is.t Nxw ); Ra-mry ( rmT-is.t ; rect o III 2); 1r ( sS pr-HD n tA Hw.t ; vers o 3-4); 1r-ms ( aA n is.t ; vers o 6 - written aA-is. t 1r-ms pA <...> ); Od-Hr-ix.t=f ( rmT-is.t ; rect o III ~1#) Incomplete [...] ( sS pr-HD [...]; vers o 9; cf. 1r )
Remarks:	Description: what is recto according to Landrino, RiME 6 (2022), is verso in older publications, which all followed the indications in Cern Notebook 23.55-56. Dates mentioned : t he text of vers o 1 is to be inserted after the regnal year in line 2.