The Deir el-Medina Database

P. Turin Cat. 1884 + P. Turin Cat. 2067/118 + P. Turin Cat. 2071/137 + P. Turin Cat. 2105/368

Other nos.: P. Turin Pleyte-Rossi pl. 112-113

Description: Light to dark brown papyrus, four fragments together measuring ca. 38.5 x 69.5 cm as presently mounted. Sheet joins at 15.5 cm, 27.5 cm and 39.5 cm from right edge of recto. Another sheet join probably lost between Cat. 2105 and 2067. Top recto = top verso. Black and red ink; recto (H/V) 3 columns: column I 22 lines with margin underneath, col. II 13 lines with margin underneath and 14th line added later in margin (together numbered 0-13), col. III 16 lines (no margin); verso (V/H) 4 columns: col. I 7 lines, col. II 6 lines (see Remarks), col. III 3 lines, col. IV 5 lines. Ample space below and to the left of verso I and II; III and IV are tiny columns on otherwise blank verso. Damaged (fragmentary): Cat. 1884 = recto I and verso IV; Cat. 2071 = recto I, II and verso III; Cat. 2105 = recto II, III and verso II; Cat. 2067 = recto III, verso I and II. Beginnings of recto 1-22 lost, lacunae in recto I 1-6, first halves of recto I 7-11 lost, upper parts of recto II and III lost, first part of recto II "0" lost, only beginnings of recto III 1-3 preserved, lacunae in recto III 4-16, ends of recto III 4-16 lost. Upper parts of verso I and II lost, beginnings of verso I 1-7 lost, only ends of verso II 1-3 preserved, lacunae in verso II 4-6. [top recto = top verso?]

Classification: account - journal : deficit - delivery - event - expense - labour - portion

Keywords: cattle - commissioning - complaint - copper - firewood - fish - gang - grain rations - granary - inactivity - junior - lamp - leather - measuring - Necropolis - oath - offering - oil - Place of Pharaoh - requirement - side (of gang) - statue - temple - textile - tools - Valley of Kings - vegetables - village - working - s.t nHb

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: Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VI, 644-650 (transcription); Helck, Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka , 511-514 (translation); Pleyte-Rossi, Papyrus de Turin , 112 and 113, pl. 76 (facsimile of recto I 14-22 and verso IV 1-5, commentary)

Dates mentioned: rnp.t-sp [...] ( recto I 1); epagomenal day 5 (recto I 3); I Ax.t sw 1 ( recto I 4: ms.w.t Ra-1r-Ax.t.y ); rnp.t-sp 16 I Ax.t sw 21-27 ( recto II 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9); II Ax.t sw 11 ( recto II 13); rnp.t-sp 16 II Ax.t [...] ( recto III 4 - red); rnp.t-sp 16 II Ax.t [...] ( recto III 8 - red, 10 - red, 12, ~14# - red); [...] Ax.t sw 19 ( verso IV 1); III pr.t sw 13 ( verso IV 4)

Dates attributed: Dyn. 20 (Pleyte-Rossi), year 15 Ramesses IX and year 16 Ramesses IX (Helck, Kitchen)

Contents: Day to day record of work and inactivity of the gang, deliveries of copper (partly from the nearby memorial temples), tools, grain rations, oil, fish, clothing. Accounts of the use of lamps by the right and left sides of the gang. Special events: taking an oath (recto I 7), action involving an ox (recto I 10), negotiations with the mayor of Thebes about the custody of PA-nfr (recto I 11, 16-18; recto II 4), complaints about 'hunger' due to the delay of grain rations from the granary of the Ma'at temple (recto II 3, 4, 6), delivery of these rations with an account of their distribution (recto II 9-12), mention of a statue of/for the vizier (recto II 13), the gang sitting at the gate of the 'Place of Pharaoh' (recto III 4).

Terminology: iw s ? (recto I ~8#? 9; III 8, 11, ~12#, 15); iny.t in [...] (recto III 5); ir n (recto I 3, II 2, 10, 10, 10, 10, 11, 11, 11, 12, 12, 12, 12; verso II 6, 7; IV 3); anx n nb anx wDA snb r Dd (recto I 7); aHa Hmt (recto I ~1#); wa nb (recto II 1, 2, 11, 11, 11, 12; verso II 6); wnmy (recto I 17, 18, 21; II 10); wsf (recto I 9); wsf n tA is.t (recto II 5); wsf n tA is.t pA 2r (recto I 3; II 3, 6); wsf n tA is.t m Niw.t (recto II 7, 8, 9); wsf s ? (recto III 8, 11 - ws f ? , 12); wDA.t=f (recto I 2, 21); m di NN (recto III 5); m Dr.t NN (recto I ~1#, ~5#? 14, 20, 20, 22; III 10); mn (recto III 7, 15); mH (recto I 22); r a NN (recto III 7?); rdy.t n=n NN (recto I 3, 4); hAw xbs (recto III 12); hAw n xbs (recto III ~9#?); hrw pn (recto I ~14#); hrw pn wnmy m Dr.t NN (recto II 2); hrw pn Ssp m Dr.t NN ( recto II 1); Hn ( recto I 15); Xr HA.t (recto III 9); smHy (recto I 8, 9, ~13#, 17, 18, 21; II 10 - see Remarks; III 13, 15); Ssp (recto I 5, 14; III 3); Ssp m Dr.t NN (recto II 5); gmy.t im=f (recto III 6); di.t di.w n tA is.t pA 2r (recto II 9) dmD (recto I 8, 9, 17, 18, 21; II 10; III 9, 9, 15; verso I 6; II 7; IV 3, 5); dmD wnmy smHy (recto I ~13#?) ; dmD hAw ... (recto II 12) Incomplete/unclear: wp [...] (verso II 6); hAw n nA rb ... (recto III 6?) ; grH=s (recto II 13?) ; [...] smi.w n NN (recto I 18: or smi n NN ?); [...] di.w n tA is.t (recto I ~1#?)

Names/Titles: an. (pA idn.w ; recto I 15); an. (pA idn.w pr-HD ; recto III 5); an. (aA ; recto II 12); an. (aA n is.t ; recto II 10, 10 - written aA-is.t ); an. (pA wbA ; recto I 3); an. (Pr-aA anx wDA snb ; king; recto I 6, 17; temple of; recto I 15; place of; recto III 4); an. (mnH ; recto II 11; see Remarks); an. (mnH Sri ; recto II 11; see Remarks); an. (rmT-is.t ; recto II 11); an. (pA rmT pA 2r ; recto II 4); an. (pA HA.t.y-a n Niw.t ; recto I 11, 18; II 3); an. (Hmt.y ; verso I ~3#); an. (Hr.y-sS-od.w ; recto II 10); an. (pA sAw ; recto III ~10#); an. (pA swn.w ; recto II 12); an. (sS ; recto II 10, 12); an. (pA sS n tmA ; recto II 3, ~9#? see Remarks); an. (TAty ; recto I 4; II 13; verso I 3); Imn-hr (Hmt.y ; recto I 1, 20); Imn-Htp ([...]; verso I 4); BAk (recto I 10); PA-wxd (wHa ; recto III 16); PA-nfr (recto I 11, 16, 17, 18); PA-smn-nxt (sS pr-HD ; recto I 22); PA-sr (recto I 6); PA-on (Sms.w ; recto I 14, 20); Pn-6A-wr.t (wHa ; recto II ~1#); Pna-sw-n=i-Imn (recto I ~10#); MAa.t (deity; f.; temple of; recto II 4, 6, 9); Niw.t (geo.; recto I 16, 17, II 7, 8, 9; verso I 5, 7); Nb.t-Hw.t (deity; f.; epagomenal day; recto I 3); nswt Wsr-mAa.t-Ra 4tp.n-Ra anx wDA snb (king; temple of; recto I 14, 20); nswt Nb-mAa.t-Ra anx wDA snb pA nTr aA (king, temple of; recto I 22) Ra-1r-Ax.t.y (deity; recto I 4); 1r (sS n pA 2r ; recto II 5); 1r-Sri (sS ; recto I 16, 17); 1r-ms (aA n is.t ; recto II 13); 4bk-snb (sS n pA 2r ; recto. I 16); 4x.t aA.t (geo.; recto I ~6#); On-Hr-xpS=f (wHa ; recto II 2); pA dmi (geo.; recto III ~16#?); 9Hwty-Htp (wab ; recto I 22)

Remarks: Transcription collated in Turin on 3 and 4 May 2000 by B. Haring. Description: verso II has only 6 lines (Kitchen's vs. II 2 and II 3 are one and the same), but the numbering of lines as edited has been maintained here. Terminology: note short writing of smHy as observed in recto I 18 and 21 by Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VI, 646; same writing in recto II 10 (red). Names, Titles: for the writing of mnH in recto II 11 see Janssen, Village Varia , 20 note 41. Probably read in pA sS n tmA at the end of recto II 9 (Haring, in: Deir el-Medina in the Third Millennium AD , 147, note 103).

Record last updated 2024-07-15

	P. Turin Cat. 1884 + P. Turin Cat. 2067/118 + P. Turin Cat. 2071/137 + P. Turin Cat. 2105/368
Other nos.:	P. Turin Pleyte-Rossi pl. 112-113

Description:	Light to dark brown papyrus, four fragments together measuring ca. 38.5 x 69.5 cm as presently mounted. Sheet joins at 15.5 cm, 27.5 cm and 39.5 cm from right edge of recto. Another sheet join probably lost between Cat. 2105 and 2067. Top recto = top verso. Black and red ink; recto (H/V) 3 columns: column I 22 lines with margin underneath, col. II 13 lines with margin underneath and 14th line added later in margin (together numbered 0-13), col. III 16 lines (no margin); verso (V/H) 4 columns: col. I 7 lines, col. II 6 lines (see Remarks), col. III 3 lines, col. IV 5 lines. Ample space below and to the left of verso I and II; III and IV are tiny columns on otherwise blank verso. Damaged (fragmentary): Cat. 1884 = recto I and verso IV; Cat. 2071 = recto I, II and verso III; Cat. 2105 = recto II, III and verso II; Cat. 2067 = recto III, verso I and II. Beginnings of recto 1-22 lost, lacunae in recto I 1-6, first halves of recto I 7-11 lost, upper parts of recto II and III lost, first part of recto II "0" lost, only beginnings of recto III 1-3 preserved, lacunae in recto III 4-16, ends of recto III 4-16 lost. Upper parts of verso I and II lost, beginnings of verso I 1-7 lost, only ends of verso II 1-3 preserved, lacunae in verso II 4-6. [top recto = top verso?]
Classification:	account - journal : deficit - delivery - event - expense - labour - portion
Keywords:	cattle - commissioning - complaint - copper - firewood - fish - gang - grain rations - granary - inactivity - junior - lamp - leather - measuring - Necropolis - oath - offering - oil - Place of Pharaoh - requirement - side (of gang) - statue - temple - textile - tools - Valley of Kings - vegetables - village - working - s.t nHb
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:	Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VI, 644-650 (transcription); Helck, Die datierten und datierbaren Ostraka , 511-514 (translation); Pleyte-Rossi, Papyrus de Turin , 112 and 113, pl. 76 (facsimile of recto I 14-22 and verso IV 1-5, commentary)
Dates mentioned:	rnp.t-sp [...] ( recto I 1); epagomenal day 5 (recto I 3); I Ax.t sw 1 ( recto I 4: ms.w.t Ra-1r-Ax.t.y ); rnp.t-sp 16 I Ax.t sw 21-27 ( recto II 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9); II Ax.t sw 11 ( recto II 13); rnp.t-sp 16 II Ax.t [...] ( recto III 4 - red); rnp.t-sp 16 II Ax.t [...] ( recto III 8 - red, 10 - red, 12, ~14# - red); [...] Ax.t sw 19 ( verso IV 1); III pr.t sw 13 ( verso IV 4)
Dates attributed:	Dyn. 20 (Pleyte-Rossi), year 15 Ramesses IX and year 16 Ramesses IX (Helck, Kitchen)
Contents:	Day to day record of work and inactivity of the gang, deliveries of copper (partly from the nearby memorial temples), tools, grain rations, oil, fish, clothing. Accounts of the use of lamps by the right and left sides of the gang. Special events: taking an oath (recto I 7), action involving an ox (recto I 10), negotiations with the mayor of Thebes about the custody of PA-nfr (recto I 11, 16-18; recto II 4), complaints about 'hunger' due to the delay of grain rations from the granary of the Ma'at temple (recto II 3, 4, 6), delivery of these rations with an account of their distribution (recto II 9-12), mention of a statue of/for the vizier (recto II 13), the gang sitting at the gate of the 'Place of Pharaoh' (recto III 4).
Terminology:	iw s ? (recto I ~8#? 9; III 8, 11, ~12#, 15); iny.t in [...] (recto III 5); ir n (recto I 3, II 2, 10, 10, 10, 10, 11, 11, 11, 12, 12, 12, 12; verso II 6, 7; IV 3); anx n nb anx wDA snb r Dd (recto I 7); aHa Hmt (recto I ~1#); wa nb (recto II 1, 2, 11, 11, 11, 12; verso II 6); wnmy (recto I 17, 18, 21; II 10); wsf (recto I 9); wsf n tA is.t (recto II 5); wsf n tA is.t pA 2r (recto I 3; II 3, 6); wsf n tA is.t m Niw.t (recto II 7, 8, 9); wsf s ? (recto III 8, 11 - ws f ? , 12); wDA.t=f (recto I 2, 21); m di NN (recto III 5); m Dr.t NN (recto I ~1#, ~5#? 14, 20, 20, 22; III 10); mn (recto III 7, 15); mH (recto I 22); r a NN (recto III 7?); rdy.t n=n NN (recto I 3, 4); hAw xbs (recto III 12); hAw n xbs (recto III ~9#?); hrw pn (recto I ~14#); hrw pn wnmy m Dr.t NN (recto II 2); hrw pn Ssp m Dr.t NN ( recto II 1); Hn ( recto I 15); Xr HA.t (recto III 9); smHy (recto I 8, 9, ~13#, 17, 18, 21; II 10 - see Remarks; III 13, 15); Ssp (recto I 5, 14; III 3); Ssp m Dr.t NN (recto II 5); gmy.t im=f (recto III 6); di.t di.w n tA is.t pA 2r (recto II 9) dmD (recto I 8, 9, 17, 18, 21; II 10; III 9, 9, 15; verso I 6; II 7; IV 3, 5); dmD wnmy smHy (recto I ~13#?) ; dmD hAw ... (recto II 12) Incomplete/unclear: wp [...] (verso II 6); hAw n nA rb ... (recto III 6?) ; grH=s (recto II 13?) ; [...] smi.w n NN (recto I 18: or smi n NN ?); [...] di.w n tA is.t (recto I ~1#?)
Names/Titles:	an. (pA idn.w ; recto I 15); an. (pA idn.w pr-HD ; recto III 5); an. (aA ; recto II 12); an. (aA n is.t ; recto II 10, 10 - written aA-is.t ); an. (pA wbA ; recto I 3); an. (Pr-aA anx wDA snb ; king; recto I 6, 17; temple of; recto I 15; place of; recto III 4); an. (mnH ; recto II 11; see Remarks); an. (mnH Sri ; recto II 11; see Remarks); an. (rmT-is.t ; recto II 11); an. (pA rmT pA 2r ; recto II 4); an. (pA HA.t.y-a n Niw.t ; recto I 11, 18; II 3); an. (Hmt.y ; verso I ~3#); an. (Hr.y-sS-od.w ; recto II 10); an. (pA sAw ; recto III ~10#); an. (pA swn.w ; recto II 12); an. (sS ; recto II 10, 12); an. (pA sS n tmA ; recto II 3, ~9#? see Remarks); an. (TAty ; recto I 4; II 13; verso I 3); Imn-hr (Hmt.y ; recto I 1, 20); Imn-Htp ([...]; verso I 4); BAk (recto I 10); PA-wxd (wHa ; recto III 16); PA-nfr (recto I 11, 16, 17, 18); PA-smn-nxt (sS pr-HD ; recto I 22); PA-sr (recto I 6); PA-on (Sms.w ; recto I 14, 20); Pn-6A-wr.t (wHa ; recto II ~1#); Pna-sw-n=i-Imn (recto I ~10#); MAa.t (deity; f.; temple of; recto II 4, 6, 9); Niw.t (geo.; recto I 16, 17, II 7, 8, 9; verso I 5, 7); Nb.t-Hw.t (deity; f.; epagomenal day; recto I 3); nswt Wsr-mAa.t-Ra 4tp.n-Ra anx wDA snb (king; temple of; recto I 14, 20); nswt Nb-mAa.t-Ra anx wDA snb pA nTr aA (king, temple of; recto I 22) Ra-1r-Ax.t.y (deity; recto I 4); 1r (sS n pA 2r ; recto II 5); 1r-Sri (sS ; recto I 16, 17); 1r-ms (aA n is.t ; recto II 13); 4bk-snb (sS n pA 2r ; recto. I 16); 4x.t aA.t (geo.; recto I ~6#); On-Hr-xpS=f (wHa ; recto II 2); pA dmi (geo.; recto III ~16#?); 9Hwty-Htp (wab ; recto I 22)
Remarks:	Transcription collated in Turin on 3 and 4 May 2000 by B. Haring. Description: verso II has only 6 lines (Kitchen's vs. II 2 and II 3 are one and the same), but the numbering of lines as edited has been maintained here. Terminology: note short writing of smHy as observed in recto I 18 and 21 by Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions VI, 646; same writing in recto II 10 (red). Names, Titles: for the writing of mnH in recto II 11 see Janssen, Village Varia , 20 note 41. Probably read in pA sS n tmA at the end of recto II 9 (Haring, in: Deir el-Medina in the Third Millennium AD , 147, note 103).